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Currently I have an active directory running on windows server 2008 with integrated DNS. The DNS Zone files are set to be replicated Domain wide for one of our domains. I want to change it to being Forest wide replicated.

Is there a best practice way to make this change?

EDIT:

This is an inherited network. Environment, Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2.

3 AD servers in 2 sites

2 domains, one is the root of the forest eg contoso.com the other is just an AD domain within the forest, I will refer to the second as notcontoso.com

I am using AD DS-integrated replication of zone data for both domains.

However notcontoso.com is only replicated in the DomainDNSZone partition I would like to convert it or migrate it to being replicated in the ForestDNSZone partition.

Definitions of the replication scopes - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772101.aspx

Again, does anyone know of a best practice to change the replication from Domain to Forest.

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    Proper terminology is important, as is explaining a little more about your environment and what you're trying to do, because as it stands your question doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Feb 27, 2014 at 14:28
  • Is there a best practice for what AD application partition you store your AD integrated DNS zones? I believe the best practice is to replicate the AD integrated zones to all DNS servers in the Forest.
    – joeqwerty
    Feb 27, 2014 at 15:56
  • I have edited the question to include extra information and hopefully clarify what I am trying to achieve.
    – Sam
    Feb 28, 2014 at 9:24

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I'm not exactly clear on what you mean by a "best practice" to change the DNS replication scope. You... just select your zone(s) and change the replication scope to the desired scope.

In DNS manager, you'd right click your zone, and select properties from the context menu, then hit the Change... button next to Replication, and select the desired option from the radio button list. (Screenshot below).

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And, as with most things worth doing in Windows-world, you can even do it with PowerShell, these days, and the documentation for how is found on Technet.

Set-DnsServerPrimaryZone [-Name] -ReplicationScope [...]

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  • My concern is that changing it may break it. I was hoping it was as simple as your answer but worried that there was something I was missing.
    – Sam
    Apr 1, 2014 at 10:24
  • @Sam Ah, well - no worries. It's as simple as as you hoped. Apr 1, 2014 at 11:40

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