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Published inNov 2021
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Dishan Francis
Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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DNS policies

DNS policies were first introduced with Windows Server 2016 and are also available on Windows Server 2022. DNS policies mainly have the following capabilities:

  1. Geo-location based traffic routing – Let's assume Rebeladmin Inc. uses two web servers to host its website rebeladmin.com. One of the web servers is located in Canada and the other one is located in the UK. Most of the website visitors are coming from these two regions and by maintaining the local datacenter, Rebeladmin Inc. is expecting to improve the user experience. By using a DNS policy, Rebeladmin Inc. can point USA/Canada clients to the Canada web server and Europe users to the UK web server.

    We also can do this using Azure Traffic Manager. More details about its configuration is available on https://bit.ly/30QoPr8.

  2. Application load balancing – The rebeladmin.com website has four web servers in four different datacenters in Canada. Each server...
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
Read more about Dishan Francis