CreateInstanceFromPropertyData<\/b> method. The method signature is similar between all of the WMI classes in this namespace, the only differences being peculiar to the individual DNS record type. This section of the code is seen here:<\/p>\n([wmiclass]\"\\\\$DnsServer\\Root\\MicrosoftDNS:MicrosoftDNS_MxType\")`\n.CreateInstanceFromPropertyData($_.DnsServer,$_.Container,$_.Owner,`\n$_.RecordClass,$_.TTL,$_.Preference,$_.MailExchanger) |\n<\/pre>\nThe CreateInstanceFromPropertyData<\/b> method call returns an instance of Micr<\/b>o<\/b>softDNS_RTType<\/b> class. We display the information from that class by using the Format-List<\/b> :<\/p>\nFormat-List -property RR\n }\n }\n} #end New-MxRecord\n<\/pre>\nThe formatted output from the Format-List<\/b> cmdlet is seen here:<\/p>\n
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We now arrive at the entry point to the script. We assign the path to the CSV file, check the path to the file, obtain the DNS server information, and call the New-MxRecord<\/b> functionfunction:<\/p>\n$File = \"C:\\ScriptingGuys\\mxrecords.csv\"\ncheck-path $File\n$DnsServer = Get-DnsServer\nNew-MxRecord -DnsServer $DnsServer -File $File\n<\/pre>\nWoohoo! It’s done. If you don’t believe me, take a look in the MMC, as shown here:<\/p>\n
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Well, CI, that was cool. There is nothing more fun than writing a script that reads a CSV file and creates real live honest to goodness MX records in DNS. Certainly this is not something you will need to do every week, unless you are in consulting and you go around setting up DNS servers and doing a lot of Exchange work. But as I mentioned earlier in the article, the methodology is extremely similar amongst all the MicrosoftDNS<\/b> record types. This means you can setup your DNS server from a script as easily as we created the three MX records\u2014and that is pretty sweet. Speaking of sweet, join us again tomorrow as DNS week continues.<\/p>\n
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