sometimes i think it's relevant to follow your own advice. of course, some lessons aren't learned by sedulous effort. often times, it requires moments of sheer languor. rtfm, rtfm, rtfm i tell myself!
if you want to add conditional forwarders through command line, use this:
dnscmd [servername] /zoneadd [zonename.com] /forwarder [primary ip address] [secondary ip address]
the /forwarder statement is actually expressing what zone type you want (e.g. primary, secondary, etc). using /forwarder tells dnscmd that you're interested in adding conditional forwarders. this stuff rocks. by the way, this is only available on 2003 or later.
here's the tfm if you're looking for all the details.
UPDATE: john marcum sent me a kind email to let me know about a problem he ran into with preloadpkgonsite.exe in the new SCCM Toolkit V2 where under certain conditions, packages will not uncompress. if you are using the v2 toolkit, PLEASE read this blog post before proceeding. here’s a scenario that came up on the mssms@lists.myitforum.com mailing list. when confronted with a situation of large packages and wan links, it’s generally best to get the data to the other location without going over the wire. in this case, 75gb. :/ the “how” you get the files there is really not the most important thing to worry about. once they’re there and moved to the appropriate location, preloadpkgonsite.exe is required to install the compressed source files. once done, a status message goes back to the parent server which should stop the upstream server from copying the package source files over the wan to the child site. anyway, if it’s a relatively small amount of packages, you can
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