How cool is dnscmd?
Monday, February 25, 2008 at 03:28PM I didn't realize until today that you can use dnscmd to create application partitions - I'm sure that every other DS person on the planet already knew that, but I didn't. And it's just so much friggin' easier than the ntdsutil syntax.
First we create the application partition:
dnscmd DC1 /createdirectorypartition CustomDNSPartition.shutuplaura.com
This automatically adds DC1 as a replication partner of the CustomDNSPartition NC. Next we add 2 more DCs to the custom partition:
dnscmd DC2 /enlistdirectorypartition CustomDNSPartition.shutuplaura.com
dnscmd DC3 /enlistdirectorypartition CustomDNSPartition.shutuplaura.com
Then you trigger the KCC on all 3 servers to create NTDS connections for the new NC, and then run a repadmin /showrepl against each DC to confirm that it's replicating.
All that's left is to change the replication scope of the zone in question over to the new NC you just created, and voila!
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