Deploy DNS Settings to Windows 2000 Pro

[Steve]

We run an environment with a large number of Windows 2000
workstations. All workstations in our company have static
IP address settings. We just implemented a DNS Server and
we would like to deploy the settings: PRIMARY DNS Server,
dns suffix for this connection, and search order suffixes.

Can we do this with a SCRIPT because on our Windows 95
machines we just pushed out a .reg file, but on 2000 you
can't do that. When you go to ControlSet01/services/tcpip
the adapters all have a different key name.

Does anyone have a script that will do that on a Windows
2000 machine. or do we have to visit these machines and
change each one?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

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We run an environment with a large number of Windows 2000
workstations. All workstations in our company have static
IP address settings. We just implemented a DNS Server and
we would like to deploy the settings: PRIMARY DNS Server,
dns suffix for this connection, and search order suffixes.

Can we do this with a SCRIPT because on our Windows 95
machines we just pushed out a .reg file, but on 2000 you
can't do that. When you go to ControlSet01/services/tcpip
the adapters all have a different key name.

Does anyone have a script that will do that on a Windows
2000 machine. or do we have to visit these machines and
change each one?

Thanks,
Steve

The DNS server and domain suffix can be and should be published in DHCP the
registry entry can be added in group policies or run as a script on each
machine

Copy this to a text file, edit the search list and save it with a .reg
extension

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
"SearchList"="domain1.com.,domain2.com."