Would you like to learn how to create a group policy to configure the DNS client? In this tutorial, we will show you how to configure the DNS client of computers running Windows.
• Windows 2003
• Windows XP
This setting will not work on other versions of Windows.
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Tutorial GPO – Configure the DNS client
On the domain controller, open the group policy management tool.
Create a new group policy.
Enter a name for the new group policy.
In our example, the new GPO was named: MY-GPO.
On the Group Policy Management screen, expand the folder named Group Policy Objects.
Right-click your new Group Policy Object and select the Edit option.
On the group policy editor screen, expand the Computer configuration folder and locate the following item.
Access the folder named DNS client.
Enable the option named DNS servers.
Enter the list of DNS servers delimited by space.
To save the group policy configuration, you need to close the Group Policy editor.
Congratulations! You have finished the GPO creation.
Tutorial – Applying the GPO to configure the DNS client
On the Group policy management screen, you need to right-click the Organizational Unit desired and select the option to link an existent GPO.
In our example, we are going to link the group policy named MY-GPO to the root of the domain.
After applying the GPO you need to wait for 10 or 20 minutes.
During this time the GPO will be replicated to other domain controllers.
In our example, we configured the list of DNS servers used by all domain computers using a GPO.
