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Generating a DNS health check in Windows

DATE: 11 Sep 2009

The first step in troubleshooting DNS is to figure out where the failures are occurring.

In this short screencast, Directory Services MVP Gary Olsen demonstrates how to use the DCDIAG /TEST:DNS command to test your DNS servers for authentication, delegation and more.

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