# Manage Records

As you know, in DNS you can add records according to your need and in Windows server 2012 as well. This doesn’t change too much from its earlier version of Windows Server 2008.

To add or manage records, we have to follow the steps given below :

### <mark style="color:blue;">Step 1</mark> <a href="#step-1" id="step-1"></a>

<mark style="color:red;">**Server Manager**</mark> → <mark style="color:red;">**DNS**</mark> → Right click on the server that has a DNS record, which in our case is local.

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### <mark style="color:blue;">Step 2</mark> <a href="#step-2" id="step-2"></a>

Go to “<mark style="color:red;">**Forward Lookup Zone**</mark>”.

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### <mark style="color:blue;">Step 3</mark> <a href="#step-3" id="step-3"></a>

Right Click on the empty Field → <mark style="color:red;">**New Host (A or AAAA) …**</mark>

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### <mark style="color:blue;">Step 4</mark> <a href="#step-4" id="step-4"></a>

Name field and the subdomain name or case is WWW. → IP address we put is 192.168.1.200. So, when we will type-in our browser www.example.com, it will redirect us to 192.168.1.200.

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### <mark style="color:blue;">Step 5</mark> <a href="#step-5" id="step-5"></a>

To add a Mail Server Record, we add an MX record and then Right click → <mark style="color:red;">**New Mail Exchanger**</mark> as shown in the screenshot given below.

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### <mark style="color:blue;">Step 6</mark> <a href="#step-6" id="step-6"></a>

At “<mark style="color:red;">**Fully qualifies domain name(FQDN) of mail server**</mark>”, you enter the name of mail server → then in the “<mark style="color:red;">**Mail server priority**</mark>”, you enter a number. The smaller the number, the higher the priority.

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