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If there was a straight answer then it wouldn't be a choice. They include the option because you may or may not need it, depending on your unique environment. We can't answer that in a void.
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If there was a straight answer then it wouldn't be a choice. They include the option because you may or may not need it, depending on your unique environment. We can't answer that in a void.

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Do you have a single domain under a single forest? How many DCs in the forest? You are fine answering No to creating a DNS delegation if you aren't interested in load balancing a lot of DNS requests. Here is a better description of it.<br />
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<a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771640.aspx" rel="ugc">https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771640.aspx</a>
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Do you have a single domain under a single forest? How many DCs in the forest? You are fine answering No to creating a DNS delegation if you aren't interested in load balancing a lot of DNS requests. Here is a better description of it.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771640.aspx [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771640.aspx]

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Hello,<br />
Do we need to say Yes to &quot;createDNSDelegation&quot; option &nbsp;when promoting 2012 DC? We want it to be DNS as well and we have DNS integrated zones. Do we need to say yes or no to CreateDNSDelegation?<br />
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THank you.<br />
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# Windows PowerShell script for AD DS Deployment<br />
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Import-Module ADDSDeployment<br />
Install-ADDSDomainControll<wbr />er `<br />
-CreateDnsDelegation:$fals<wbr />e `
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Hello,
Do we need to say Yes to "createDNSDelegation" option  when promoting 2012 DC? We want it to be DNS as well and we have DNS integrated zones. Do we need to say yes or no to CreateDNSDelegation?

THank you.

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# Windows PowerShell script for AD DS Deployment
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Import-Module ADDSDeployment
Install-ADDSDomainController `
-CreateDnsDelegation:$false `

DNS delegation option?? when promoting DC

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