I have several questions regarding changing ‘Zone Types’ and Scavenge / Aging settings in a Win 2K3 Standard Environment (all servers). Essentially:
1. Looking at the ‘Properties’ on one of my Forward Look-up zones, on the ‘General’ tab there is a setting to change the ‘Zone Type’. When clicking on this, I can choose between Primary Zone, Secondary Zone, or Stub Zone with a brief description of each. My primary DNS/DC server is set as ‘Primary Zone,’ I have a secondary DNS/DC server also set as ‘Primary Zone,’ and a third server (my Exchange srver w/DNS) set as ‘Secondary Zone.’ This is all on a single Domain environment with approx. 50 PCs . Should my secondary DNS/DC server be set as ‘Secondary Zone’ or remain as ‘Primary Zone’ and what are the implications? I want this secondary server to be completely fault tolerant and able to take over all DNS/DC work in case of failure on the primary server.
2. Setting Scavenge and Aging settings on these same servers; it has currently never been set on any server and I would like to clean-up the clutter. Should I Enable this on every DNS server, just my primary server (assumung the correct info would propogate), or my primary and secondary servers?
Thanks for all you help, it is very much appreciated. I have searched but have not been able to find info related specifically to these questions (although have found many MS articles to improve my knowledge on the topic). Since I will be working on my MCSE in the coming months, I hope you current MCSEs can help me out!
