Isnt it because that the domain your upgrading IS the parent. There is no domain above it and therefor it can’t, and doesn’t need delegating upwards.
Gavin Wilby IT Support Engineer From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: 01 April 2015 16:28 To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] DNS delegation error when upgrading domain from Win2008 R2 to Win2012R2 ? I am attempting to upgrade my test environment from Win2008 R2 to Win2012 R2. I have a parent / child domain, and I am upgrading the parent domain. I have a Win2012 member server that I am installing ADDS on. When choosing the upgraded server to be a DNS server, I am getting a DNS delegation error. It says that a "delegation for this DNS server cannot be created because the authoritative parent zone cannot be found or it does not run Windows server". Why is that? The current DC for this domain is a DNS server, and it is there, and it is available. It says I can manually create a delegation to this DNS server in the parent zone to ensure reliable name resolution from outside the domain "my-domain". Otherwise, no action is required". All the example web sites and videos I've seen say this is a normal message, but I don't understand why it is normal, if there is a DNS server for this domain. Can anyone explain? Being a virtual test environment, I will just click past it. I can always revert to an earlier snapshot and try again, if necessary. I just want to understand why I am seeing this, and if I will see it when I do this in production. Thanks SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited and SMP Fund Services Limited are licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. SMP Accounting & Tax Limited is a member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance Scheme. SMP Partners Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 000908V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, P.N. Eckersley, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Trustees Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 068396C Directors: A.C. Baggesen, M.W. Denton, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, J. Watterson, J. Cubbon SMP Fund Services Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 120288C Directors: V. Campbell, M.W. Denton, P.N. Eckersley, D.A. Manser, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, R.K. Corkill SMP Accounting & Tax Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 001316V Directors: I.F. Begley, A.J. Dowling, P. Duchars, P.N. Eckersley, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Capital Markets Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 002438V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, D.F Hudson, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott. SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited, SMP Fund Services Limited, SMP Accounting & Tax Limited and SMP Capital Markets Limited are members of the SMP Partners Group of Companies. This email is confidential and is subject to disclaimers. Details can be found at: http://www.smppartners.com/disclaimer.asp ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
