Netlogon.dns file

This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Personally I use a management workstation so when I need to do something like OP is asking I do it from an admin share vs directly on a DC.

That would not require a separate program. In the scripts folder under the GPO. Unless it's is an msi type install then it lives in a dfs distributed network share. You do this from a workstation. Okay, I thought of a reason why you would do this. It's a small network with a single DC and you are remoting in and only have remote access to the DC. Fine, go ahead and do it locally then.

Start an elevated command prompt and do that Thank you all for the responses. Our network is very simple, two DCs for a single forest and single domain. I only have remote access to the servers. Which prompted me to try the local changes. Background information: If you restore the DNS server database from a backup that is more than 7 days old, and if the DNS server on that computer has dynamic DNS zones, upon booting the DNS server will immediately erase all the dynamic records.

This is because the DNS server checks the timestamp of each dynamic DNS record when it boots and periodically thereafter. If the timestamp is older than the aging interval default 7 days , the DNS record is erased. During the initial boot with a newly loaded Active Directory you may see some spurious errors in the Event Log regarding the inability to locate a domain controller or the Global Catalog.

These error messages are temporary and can be ignored. Each domain controller will attempt to dynamically re-register its IP address every minutes until it succeeds. This can happen if you use integrated DNS zones. This is normal, and the next registration attempt should succeed. By choosing Test, U-Move will notify the DC that it does not need to pause for a successful initial replication during the first boot.

The purpose of the delay is to make sure that the restored copy AD is indeed the most recent one. If you select Planned or Emergency, the DC might stall for up to an hour while it waits to replicate with a 'good' DC one that was not itself also re-loaded.

DNS will remain inoperable during this time. This is normal behavior and the error messages can be safely ignored. The result is a circular deadlock. If you do not want to wait for 30 minutes, you can manually stop and restart the DNS service. This will break the deadlock.

The deadlock will not happen on subsequent boots. Test move: Not moving all DNS servers If you are not moving all the DNS servers to your test lab, you must reconfigure DNS so that the test domain controller s can continue to locate each other and so that test client computers can locate the domain controllers.

Your test lab will be isolated from the rest of the network. This means that DNS queries for external zones outside of the test lab will time out.

Some Microsoft components will attempt to access external DNS zones, such as microsoft. Because the DNS server cannot forward these requests, they will time out, causing irritating delays. This will cause the DNS server to immediately fail external lookup requests instead of trying to forward them and timing out. Active Directory uses DNS to locate the domain controllers in a domain.

If DNS is configured incorrectly, domain controllers will not be able to locate each other for replication.