Powershell – List the name servers in the DNS Zone properties GUI with Powershell

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I have read through a listing of all the DNS powershell cmdlets and can't believe I didn't find a programmatic way of reading the below list. Am I missing it, or is there a .NET way to do so that I didn't also find?

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Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ComputerName <DNS Server You Are Querying> -ZoneName <Forward Lookup Zone Name> -RRType NS

The name serves type in the properties of the domain you are looking at are populated in the forward lookup zone as NS name records. Those are the name servers for that domain. Querying for the NS resource record in the PS command above will give you those records. To change them, you would use the Set-DnsServerResourceRecord cmdlet.

The DNS Server cmdlets are located in the DNSServer powershell module.

You can import that commandlet with Import-Module -Name DNSServer cmd.

You can look at all the commands associated with that module by typing get-command -Module DNSServer command.

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