Maintenance Manual
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Maintenance Checklists for Active Directory on a Cisco Unity System with Exchange as the Message Store
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Checklist—Every Six Months
Checklist—Every Six Months
Ta b l e 4 Do Every Six Months
Task and Instructions Date Completed
1. Verify the DNS configuration.
On each of the domain controllers and global catalog servers with which each Cisco Unity server communicates:
a. Run ipconfig /flushdns to flush and reset the contents of the DNS client resolver cache.
b. Do the checks that are discussed in the Microsoft TechNet topic “Verifying Your Basic DNS Configuration.” The article is in
the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit, but the information applies to all versions of Windows.
On each Cisco Unity server:
c. Run ipconfig /flushdns to flush and reset the contents of the DNS client resolver cache.
d. Do the procedure in the Microsoft TechNet topic “Verify DNS registration for domain controllers using the nslookup
command.” The article is in the Windows Server 2003 Technical Library, but the information applies to all versions of
Windows.
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2. Optional: In each domain that includes one or more Cisco Unity servers, confirm that the following FSMO roles are assigned:
• Infrastructure Master. The server with this role should not be a global catalog server unless all domain controllers are also
global catalog servers.
• Relative ID Master
• PDC Emulator
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