DNS installation w/AD

[iolair]

With Windows 2003, there were two ways to install DNS w/AD - one was to install DNS, and get it setup before you ran dcpromo, the other was to install DNS while you were running dcpromo. If I remember right, one way seemed to work better than the other. Is this also true for 2008? Is it better to install DNS while you're installing AD, or is it better to setup DNS first, then install AD?

Iolair MacWalter
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[mrdenny]

It's no problem to let AD install it while it is installing. That's how all my DCs were built.

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[iolair]

Thanks! That's how I'll proceed.

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer