> In news:%23YP3MtHmHHA.4688[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl,
> Alex <news[ at ]ms.com.news> typed:
>> Hi. We have recently deployed a new Windows 2003 network and have
>> noticed today that in the DNS console we have two _mscds folders, one
>> outside the DOMAIN.NET folder and one insite the DOMAIN.NET folder. The
>> folder outside the DOMAIN.NET folder contains all the usual
>> entries that it should contain and the greyed out version inside the
>> DOMAIN.NET folder contains one NS Entry for one of the two domain
>> controllers. I have listed below the current structure, if anyone
>> can please advise if this is normal or if we need to take any action
>> it would be appreciated:
>> Alex.
>>
>>
>> DC1
>> Forward Lookup Zone
>> _msdcs.DOMAIN.NET
>> dc
>> .......
>> domains
>> .......
>> gc
>> .......
>> pdc
>> .......
>>
>> DOMAIN.NET
>> _msdcs (this is greyed out folder)
>> Only entry inside this folder one NS Entry -
>> dc1.domain.net _sites
>> ........
>> _tcp
>> ........
>> _udp
>> ........
>> DomainDnsZones
>> ........
>> ForestDnsZones
>> ........
>> Reverse Lookup Zone
>
>
>
> DON'T TOUCH THEM or you will be posting back with problems and asking how
> to put them back. The grayed out one is a delegation saying to go look on
> this server for the _.msdcs.domain.net zone. This zone replication is set
> forest wide and has info for the whole forest on where the root is and
> what DCs are GCs.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ace
>
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>
> Ace Fekay, MCSE 2003 & 2000, MCSA 2003 & 2000, MCSE+I, MCT, MVP
> Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
> Microsoft Certified Trainer
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