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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

DNSTasks in Chapter 4. In other words, to perform this task, refer
to the section

Configure a Forwarder under

DNSTasks in Chapter 4.

The following cross reference is to the subsection

Clients
using Static Addresses within the section

Configure DNS Clients under

DNSTasks 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

DNSConcepts 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

DNSTasks in Chapter 4,
while other sections in Chapter 4 like

DNSConcepts ,

DNSTools , and

DNSNotes 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

DNSConcepts

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.