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Who Moved the DNS Cheese? Auditing for AD-Integrated DNS Zone and Record Deletions

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MichaelHildebrand
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Sep 20, 2018
First published on TechNet on Oct 12, 2013 Something just happened. Something big. The wheels are falling off the enterprise. People can't log in. "The XYZ domain is not available. Please try ag...
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geoperkins
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Dec 14, 2023

Unfortunately, the linked articles for DNS deletion and scavenging (near the bottom of this blog) no longer work.

Microsoft has lost an enormous amount of practical knowledge by reorganizing the former Technet pages without preserving the hyperlinks. 😞

Please find the articles and update the links.

For more in-depth info on DNS deletion and scavenging, see these great posts:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2011/08/17/tracking-dns-record-deletion.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/isrpfeplat/archive/2010/09/23/dns-scavenging-internals-or-what-is-the-d...