When I was writing the DNS chapter of PowerShell in Practice I couldn’t get the CreateInstanceFromPropertyData method on the MicrosoftDNS_PTRType class to work. Revisiting DNS for AD management in a Month of lunches this time round I have access to the CIM cmdlets so can put the parameter names in. This gives usage like this. I’ve shown Invoke-WmiMethod and Invoke-CimMethod so you can see the parameter names:
Invoke-WmiMethod -Namespace root\MicrosoftDNS -Class MicrosoftDNS_PTRType `
-Name CreateInstanceFromPropertyData `
-ArgumentList “175.168.192.in-addr.arpa”, ‘server02′, ’55.175.168.192.in-addr.arpa’,
“ADMLServer02.admldns.test”
Invoke-CimMethod -Namespace root\MicrosoftDNS -ClassName MicrosoftDNS_PTRType `
-MethodName CreateInstanceFromPropertyData `
-Arguments @{Containername = “175.168.192.in-addr.arpa”;
DnsServerName = ‘server02′; OwnerName = ’55.175.168.192.in-addr.arpa’;
PTRDomainName =”ADMLServer02.admldns.test”}
If you have access to Windows 2012 then you are better off using the cmdlet
Add-DnsServerResourceRecordPtr –Name ‘54’ `
–ZoneName “175.168.192.in-addr.arpa” `
–PtrDomainName ‘ADMLServer01.admldns.test’ `
–ComputerName server02
Which ever method you use – you can easily create PTR records