Your network contains an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) forest. The forest contains three domains. Each domain contains 10 domain controllers.
You plan to store a DNS zone in a custom Active Directory partition.
You need to create the Active Directory partition for the zone. The partition must replicate to only four of the domain controllers.
What should you use?
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A. B. C. D.A
To create a custom Active Directory partition for a DNS zone that replicates to only a specific set of domain controllers in an AD DS forest, you should use option B, Active Directory Sites and Services.
Here's how you can do it:
Log on to a domain controller in the forest with an account that has Domain Admins or Enterprise Admins permissions.
Open the Active Directory Sites and Services console. To do this, click Start, type "dssite.msc" in the search box, and then press Enter.
In the console tree, expand the Sites node, and then expand the site that contains the domain controllers to which you want to replicate the partition.
Right-click the site, and then click New > Site Link.
In the New Object - Site Link dialog box, type a name for the new site link, and then click Add.
In the Add Site Link Bridge dialog box, select the sites that you want to include in the site link, and then click OK.
In the New Object - Site Link dialog box, click OK to create the site link.
In the console tree, expand the server node that represents the domain controller that will host the partition, and then expand the NTDS Settings node.
Right-click the NTDS Settings node, and then click Properties.
In the NTDS Settings Properties dialog box, click the General tab.
Under the Global Catalog options, select the Global Catalog check box if it is not already selected.
Click the Add button, and then select the site link that you created in step 5.
Click OK to close the NTDS Settings Properties dialog box.
Open the DNS Manager console. To do this, click Start, type "dnsmgmt.msc" in the search box, and then press Enter.
In the console tree, right-click the domain name that will contain the zone, and then click New Zone.
In the New Zone Wizard, select the option to create a new zone in a new partition, and then click Next.
Select the option to create a new application directory partition, and then click Next.
Type a name for the new partition, and then click Next.
In the Replication Scope dialog box, select the option to replicate the partition to all domain controllers in the forest, and then click Next.
In the Completing the New Zone Wizard dialog box, click Finish.
Right-click the new zone, and then click Properties.
In the Properties dialog box, click the Change button next to the Replication Scope field.
Select the option to replicate the partition to only the domain controllers that are listed in the following site link, and then select the site link that you created in step 5.
Click OK to close the Properties dialog box.
By following these steps, you can create a custom Active Directory partition for a DNS zone that replicates to only a specific set of domain controllers in an AD DS forest.