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If you have an on-premises Active Directory environment, you do not want to miss this session! The AD product group will present and demonstrate some of the new AD capabilities coming in Windows Serv...
Char_Cheesman
Updated Dec 27, 2024
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Tony_Pombo
Iron Contributor
Mar 28, 2024

In the demo, a DC locator mapping was made for "contoso" to contoso.com. Can you add multiple Netbios names for the same DNS name?

 

For example, could you also map "cont" to contoso.com and "c" to contoso.com? So, all the following would be equivalent for a user:

  • tony @ contoso.com
  • contoso\tony
  • cont\tony
  • c\tony
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    B4Art
    Brass Contributor
    Apr 02, 2024
    This does make think of the history expiring WINS and transit to fully use DNS. There was a special solution created by MS like GlobalNames. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dnsserver/set-dnsserverglobalnamezone?view=windowsserver2022-ps
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    Cliff_Fisher
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    Mar 29, 2024
    Great question, Tony! No, that is explicitly not supported. In fact, if an admin tries to do it anyway by manually entering the data into the directory, we will detect the duplicate mappings and throw them all out.