Re: '.' question windows 2003 server

webby wrote:
Thanks for the reply...So we are correct in thinking that it did
overwrite the original root zone?

Actually, an AD integrated zone cannot overwrite a standard primary. The
zone data in a standard primary is in a text file in the
%systemroot%\system32\dns directory. If you change a zone from standard
primary to AD integrated, the zonename.dns file is left unchanged in that
directory, DNS will just not load the data from it.
That said, if it this standard primary zone was converted to AD integrated,
its data will be merged into Active Directory, and it leaves the original
zone file intact and unused.

What I'm saying here, is if the original zone file is there and you want to
merge it into Active Directory, delete the Active Directory integrated zone.
This will remove the zone from all DCs, then go back to the original DNS
that had the Standard Primary zone. and recreate the zone as a standard
primary, and select the option to use the existing file (should be root.dns)
then after the zone loads, right click on the zone, choose properties,
change it to AD integrated, and set its replication scope. Then the data
from the original zone is merged into AD and replicated according to your
replication scope.

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