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
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 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
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
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: