Use this document to connect an official requirement or behavior to observable evidence: Limit Zero Trust DNS pilots to licensed Windows 11 Enterprise or Education devices. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting.
\nThe official Zero Trust DNS from Microsoft supports the following bounded statements:
\nOnly the traced statements above are asserted as source facts. Apply the review to Windows security controls, protected identities, audit policy, telemetry, exclusions, administrative roles, and response workflows after confirming that the source and deployed context match.
\nThe page applies only to Windows 11 with the listed edition and license; inventory literal-IP, bootstrap, VPN, discovery, and emergency paths before a deny-by-default pilot. It does not establish a deployment’s current state, authorize a production change, prove compliance, or show that Active Directory, Windows DNS, certificate trust, time, endpoint management, telemetry pipelines, and security operations are healthy. Documented options are review inputs, not universal mandates.
\nDSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. Begin by recording scope and current state before deciding whether a change is warranted. Record the source location, examined part of Windows security controls, protected identities, audit policy, telemetry, exclusions, administrative roles, and response workflows, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation.
\nAn implementation decision needs an owner, approved window, prechecks, observable outcome, stop authority, and rollback path. Validate Active Directory, Windows DNS, certificate trust, time, endpoint management, telemetry pipelines, and security operations before and after the test, and store only sanitized operational evidence.
\nA reviewer should be able to retrace the decision from Overview; Windows edition and licensing requirements > edition and entitlement tables through policy and feature state, security events, test detections, administrative assignments, exception approvals, and response tickets. Record what was collected, where, when, by whom, and which system or role it represents.
\nRetain the starting state, authorization, execution record, outcome, deviation, and final state as one review package. Move disruptive checks to an approved test path. Reopen the decision when versions, design, dependencies, ownership, or official guidance changes.
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