Editing GSTN - RSAT (section)

= {{anchor|RefHeading245818334169}} 1.4 Enabling the "Advanced Features" view  =

Most of the RSAT tools hide content and menu options in their default setting. To enable all features and display the whole content in each program, go to the "View" menu and activate "Advanced Features". 

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== {{anchor|RefHeading4781318551107}} 2. Creating a new user. ==

{{anchor|RefHeading4801318551107}} To create a new user open ''Active Directory Users and Computers'' snap-in by typing ''administrative tools'' in search box as shown in below print screen.




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Double click on ''Active Directory Users and Computers'' snap-in.

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Once we’re inside the ''Active Directory Users and Computers'' snap-in, we’ll need to expand the domain in which we want to create the user, and right-click on the ''Users'' folder. We’ll then select&nbsp; New>User.

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The ''New Object – User'' box will pop up and require you to put in the user’s name and create the user logon.

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Next we’ll give the user an initial password, and make sure to have them change it as soon as they first logon.

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When we’re finished, we’ll get a summary of new created user. Click on finish button.

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We can see our newly created user in ''Users'' folder in the domain.

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== {{anchor|RefHeading220469405612}} 3. DNS Records ==

{{anchor|RefHeading216469405612}} DNS records are the entries of the computer names along with their corresponding IP addresses in the DNS server database. Although there can be several DNS record types that a DNS server database can have, some of the most commonly used and important DNS records include.* <div style="margin-left:1.247cm;margin-right:0cm;">'''Host (A)''' – Host (A) records are the names of the computers along with their corresponding IPv4 IP addresses that are registered with the DNS server. </div>
* <div style="margin-left:1.247cm;margin-right:0cm;">'''Host (AAAA)''' – Host (AAAA) records are the names of the computers along with their corresponding IPv6 IP addresses that are registered with the DNS server. </div>
* <div style="margin-left:1.247cm;margin-right:0cm;">'''MX''' – MX are the Mail Exchanger records that are added to the DNS server. </div>
* <div style="margin-left:1.247cm;margin-right:0cm;">'''CNAME''' – CNAME a.k.a. Canonical Name is an alias name that administrators create in the DNS server to specify a more user-friendly name of any computer that has a complex name.</div>



== {{anchor|RefHeading222469405612}} <span style="color:#00000a;">3.1</span> Adding DNS Records Manually ==

Although DNS records will be created autometically once system join in domain but in some situation we need FQDN without joining machine in domain, To handle this situation we can add DNS records manually by following below steps:




'''1'''. Opne ''DNS ''snap-in from Administrative tools. Add DNS servers by clicking on ''Action>Connect to DNS Server ''as shown below.

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'''2'''. Select “''The following computer:” ''and type the DNS server name or IP and click on ''OK.''

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'''3'''. On ''DNS Manage'''''r '''snap-in, from the console tree in the left pane, expand the DNS server name.

From the expanded list, click ''Forward Lookup Zones. ''from the displayed zones list, click to select the DNS zone for which Host (A) DNS record is to be added. Once selected, right-click the DNS zone.

From the displayed context menu, click ''New Host (A or AAAA)''. 

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'''4. '''On ''New Host ''box, type the Name along with the IP address of the target host computer in the ''Name''''' '''and ''IP address'' fields respectively. Once done, click ''Add Host.''

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