Systems Administrator

Jeff Shafer

<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I am trying to clean up DNS and remove a ton of worthless Primary and Secondary zones on several 2012R2 servers. We have been playing with this PS but cannot get it to work properly. <br />
<br />
$CSV = Import-Csv -Path &quot;C:\_scripts\DNS\DelZones.<wbr />csv&quot; <br />
foreach ($zone in $csv) <br />
{ Remove-DnsServerZone -name $Zone -PassThru -verbose -whatif} <br />
<br />
What we get back is when running it is:<br />
Remove-DnsServerZone : The zone @{Zone=DummyZone.Dum} was not found on server DNS-03<br />
<br />
So DummyZone.Dum is listed in the CSV and is hosted on DNS-03, so it seems to read the CVS, but adds @ and brackets {} which causes it to not be found. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I have used the command successfully with a single domain just not with the CSV.<br />
<br />
Or if you have a different approach that would be great as well. Thanks in advance.
</div>
</div>


I am trying to clean up DNS and remove a ton of worthless Primary and Secondary zones on several 2012R2 servers. We have been playing with this PS but cannot get it to work properly. 

$CSV = Import-Csv -Path "C:\_scripts\DNS\DelZones.csv" 
foreach ($zone in $csv) 
{ Remove-DnsServerZone -name $Zone -PassThru -verbose -whatif} 

What we get back is when running it is:
Remove-DnsServerZone : The zone @{Zone=DummyZone.Dum} was not found on server DNS-03

So DummyZone.Dum is listed in the CSV and is hosted on DNS-03, so it seems to read the CVS, but adds @ and brackets {} which causes it to not be found. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I have used the command successfully with a single domain just not with the CSV.

Or if you have a different approach that would be great as well. Thanks in advance.

Remove-DnsServerZone not working with CSV.

Windows PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework. PowerShell provides full access to the Component Object Model (COM) and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems as well as WS-Management and Common Information Model (CIM) enabling management of remote Linux systems and network devices.

Powershell

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.