You have been asked, “Please remove the host record for these 15 computers, plus their associated PTR records”. It isn’t a difficult task, but it can be time consuming, especially if you have a large DNS database. The in-addr.arpa bit can be annoying to do over and over again. When I first decided to automate…
Tag: DNS
Quickly Check Domain Controller Health
How can you tell whether an Active Directory domain controller is functioning properly? How do you know whether some over-zealous VLAN ACL is blocking necessary ports? Testing ICMP, is easy, just ping it. Testing LDAP response isn’t hard, I wrote a vbScript to do that years ago. But to complete, we want to check more. …
Export DNS Server Records with PowerShell
I am frequently asked to export DNS records, such as, “Give me the list of A, MX and CName records in DNSZone1 and DNSZZone2”. Server 2012 has got some nice cmdlets, but I wanted something more universal with a GUI. Export-DNSEntries.ps1 uses a combination of Out-GridView and a custom from to allow you to pick…