{"id":1942,"date":"2016-11-03T19:27:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T19:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2016-11-03T19:28:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T19:28:43","slug":"how-to-install-dns-server-on-windows-server-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=1942","title":{"rendered":"How to Install DNS Server on Windows Server 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you install windows server it is just a box, nothing it there like services, if you want to use the services you should install and configure them manually whether DHCP<\/strong> or DNS or other services. The DNS<\/strong> stands for D<\/strong>ynamic H<\/strong>ost C<\/strong>onfiguration P<\/strong>rotocol and when you create an account on\u00a0a server or domain controller, your computer, and the server communicates with\u00a0each other by their IP addresses and you can\u2019t remember a lot of IPs. Here the DNS comes to action means it changes the IP to the name and name to the IP.<\/p>\n

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Install DNS Server on Windows Server 2016 Step by Step<\/h2>\n

1.<\/strong> Every service and feature are installed from Server Manager, press the start menu button and click on the <\/span><\/p>\n

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Server Manager<\/strong> icon.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong>\u00a0When the Server Manager opened, click on the Add roles and features<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n

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Add roles and features<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

3.<\/strong> Skip the Before you begin<\/strong> page and on the Select installation type<\/strong> page, just let it by default then click on\u00a0Next<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n

\"Role-based
Role-based or feature-based installation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

4.<\/strong> In the Select server destination server <\/strong>page, select the Select the server from server pool<\/strong> option and select the server from server pool that you want to install the DNS on and hit Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Select
Select destination server<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

5.<\/strong> Select the DNS Server <\/strong>from roles and\u00a0a page will open that wants you to give permission to install managing tools\u00a0for DNS server proper work, click on Add features<\/strong> button then hit Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"DNS
DNS Server<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

6.<\/strong>\u00a0Here on the Select feature page<\/strong>, no feature is needed to be installed so just hit Next<\/strong>. On the DNS Server<\/strong> page you can read some important information about the DNS server and hit Next <\/strong>then here don\u2019t do anything just click on the Install<\/strong>button, it will take some time depending on your computer.<\/p>\n

\"Install
Install server<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Conclusion:<\/strong>\u00a0The DNS server is now installed and ready for configuration, no reboot is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you install windows server it is just a box, nothing it there like services, if you want to use the services you should install and configure them manually whether DHCP or DNS or other services. The DNS stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and when you create an account on\u00a0a server or domain controller, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domain-name-system-dns","category-server-2016-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}