3.1 Understanding the Entries

Because some entries in this chapter are cross-references to Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 while others are explicit procedures you can perform, their formatting is slightly different depending on what they are intended to convey . The examples in this section are taken mostly from the DNS section later in this chapter.

The fact that the elements in the following menu are in italic font means this is a cross-reference to the topic DNS ” Tasks in Chapter 4. In other words, to perform this task, refer to the section Configure a Forwarder under DNS ”Tasks in Chapter 4.

The following cross reference is to the subsection Clients using Static Addresses within the section Configure DNS Clients under DNS ”Tasks in Chapter 4.

Configure a name server to forward queries it can't resolve

DNS Configure a Forwarder

Configure DNS clients to use static addresses

DNS Configure DNS Clients Clients using Static Addresses

The following is a cross-reference to the section Planning DNS under DNS ”Concepts in Chapter 4.

Force a DNS client to reregister its hostname with name servers

ipconfig /registerdns

Compare this with the previous two examples, and you'll see that when the first element is simply DNS , it implicitly refers to DNS ”Tasks in Chapter 4, while other sections in Chapter 4 like DNS ”Concepts , DNS ”Tools , and DNS ”Notes are instead described explicitly. In other words, because Chapter 3 is a task map, references to tasks sections in Chapter 4 omit the Tasks designation to avoid belaboring the obvious.

Plan an implementation of DNS on a network

DNS ”Concepts Planning DNS

The constant width font element in the previous example indicates it's a cross reference to the ipconfig command in Chapter 5, with focus on the /registerdns command option. If there's a particular section of the discussion you should refer to, its name is italicized, as it is in this reference to configuring a command window, taken from the heading Command Prompt :

Configure a command prompt window

cmd Discussion Configuring a command shell

Here's a different kind of example that shows steps in a procedure rather than as cross references:

Manage DNS clients using Group Policy

Group Policy Object Editor Computer Configuration Administrative Templates Network DNS Client

This example is an explicit description of how to find Group Policy settings that manage DNS clients using the Group Policy Object Editor. The key to recognizing that this is a task and not a cross reference is that it isn't in italics or constant width font.

Here's one more example, taken from the heading Error Reporting , to illustrate one final type of menu in this chapter:

Configure settings for sending error reports to Microsoft

Control Panel System Advanced Error Reporting

This is also not a cross reference but an explicit series of steps involving the System utility in the Control Panel. This task is listed here because it didn't fit under any of the broad administrative categories of Chapter 4, but it seemed important enough to include somewhere in this book.

To summarize, if the elements of a menu are in:

• Italic font, it's a cross-reference to Chapter 4.

• Constant width font, it's a cross-reference to Chapter 5.

• Normal font, it's either a series of steps to perform or a Group Policy setting to configure.