Introduction

  • 2 minutes

Learn how to secure Windows Server DNS to help protect your network name resolution infrastructure and also learn how to implement DNS policies.

Scenario

Contoso, Ltd. is a financial services company in Seattle with major offices located throughout the world. Most of its compute environment runs on-premises on Windows Server. This includes virtualized workloads on Windows Server 2016 hosts.

Contoso IT staff are migrating Contoso on-premises servers to Windows Server 2022. As a Windows Server infrastructure administrator, you manage and maintain the networking infrastructure for Windows Server that will help Contoso achieve its business goals.

After completing this module, you’ll know how to secure your Windows Server DNS servers, and how to implement DNS policies.

Learning objectives

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

  • Describe split-horizon DNS and explain how to implement it.
  • Create DNS policies.
  • Implement DNS policies.
  • Describe the options for protecting the DNS server role.
  • Implement DNS security.

Prerequisites

To get the best learning experience from this module, you should have knowledge and experience of:

  • AD DS concepts and technologies.
  • Windows Server DNS role.
  • Core networking technologies.
  • Basic security best practices.
  • Windows PowerShell basics.