Active Directory DNS Zone Locations

In this post I'm going to show you where the DNS zone files are stored in Active Directory. This may be required for trouble shooting problems with DNS.

In the Change Zone Replication Scope screen there is three places you can store a zone file:



When you select To all DNS servers in this forest: kbomb.local it stores it under:

CN=MicrosoftDNS,DC=ForestDNSZones,DC=kbomb,DC=local

You can get to this in ADSIEdit by going to this:

DC=ForestDNSZones,DC=kbomb,DC=local





When you select To all DNS servers in this domain: kbomb.local it stores it under:

CN=MicrosoftDNS,DC=DomainDNSZones,DC=kbomb,DC=local

You can get to this in ADSIEdit by going to this:

DC=DomainDNSZones,DC=kbomb,DC=local





When you select To all domain controllers in this domain (for Windows 2000 compatibility): kbomb.local it stores it under:

CN=MicrosoftDNS,CN=System,DC=kbomb,DC=local

You can get to this in ADSIEdit by going to this:

DC=kbomb,DC=local