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        "content_html": "<p>Keep this document to one review outcome: Show-DnsServerCache: show dns server cache with bounded evidence. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting.</p>\n<h2>Source fact:</h2>\n<p>The official <a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dnsserver/show-dnsservercache?view=windowsserver2025-ps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Show-DnsServerCache</a> from Microsoft supports the following bounded statements:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>At DESCRIPTION, Microsoft states: “The Show-DNSServerCache cmdlet shows all cached Domain Name System (DNS) server resource records in the following format: Name, ResourceRecordData, Time-to-Live (TTL).” The research record locates this support at <strong>DESCRIPTION</strong>.</li>\n<li>At Example 1: Show all resource records in a DNS server cache, Microsoft states: “This command shows all resource records that exist in a specified DNS server cache.” The research record locates this support at <strong>Example 1: Show all resource records in a DNS server cache</strong>.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>These statements are the factual basis for this document. Do not extend them into a broader assurance. Review Windows DNS servers, AD-integrated zones, policies, forwarders, logging channels, clients, and administrative roles only where the source and recorded environment align.</p>\n<h2>What the source does not establish</h2>\n<p>The cited page and retained statements do not establish the current state of any DSE or customer environment, prove that the documented configuration is applicable, or authorize a production change. Confirm supported versions, dependencies, and the current live source before use. No current deployment state or change approval follows from the source alone. Validate Active Directory replication, domain-controller health, service accounts, routing, time, certificates, and upstream resolution, and treat examples or options as conditional inputs rather than defaults.</p>\n<h2>Applicability questions</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>For source statement 1 at <strong>DESCRIPTION</strong>, which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?</li>\n<li>For source statement 2 at <strong>Example 1: Show all resource records in a DNS server cache</strong>, which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?</li>\n<li>Which deployed instance of Windows DNS servers, AD-integrated zones, policies, forwarders, logging channels, clients, and administrative roles will be compared with the source, and why that instance?</li>\n<li>How will the review distinguish a source mismatch from a failure in Active Directory replication, domain-controller health, service accounts, routing, time, certificates, and upstream resolution?</li>\n<li>Who approves the conclusion, exception, test window, and rollback threshold?</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>DSE recommendation:</h2>\n<p>DSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. Start with applicability, then compare the observed state with the cited source. Record the source location, examined part of Windows DNS servers, AD-integrated zones, policies, forwarders, logging channels, clients, and administrative roles, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation.</p>\n<p>Do not move from citation to production in one step. Pilot the decision where practical, observe agreed signals, retain a reversal point, and verify Active Directory replication, domain-controller health, service accounts, routing, time, certificates, and upstream resolution. Handle credentials, keys, recovery data, and personal information through approved secure channels.</p>\n<h2>Verification and evidence</h2>\n<p>Keep the source locations <strong>DESCRIPTION</strong>; <strong>Example 1: Show all resource records in a DNS server cache</strong> adjacent to the sanitized artifacts used for comparison. Prefer PowerShell exports, zone and policy inventories, sanitized query tests, event-channel data, replication state, and rollback commands, with enough identity and timing data for an independent recheck.</p>\n<p>Label this evidence set <strong>DSE-20260827-280</strong> so observations, approvals, exceptions, and later rechecks cannot be substituted from another source review.</p>\n<p>Preserve both successful and failed observations, along with approval and rollback evidence. Avoid uncontrolled production experiments. Assign an expiry or event-driven recheck so the conclusion is not treated as permanent.</p>\n<h2>Official references</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dnsserver/show-dnsservercache?view=windowsserver2025-ps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Show-DnsServerCache</a> — Microsoft</li>\n</ul>",
        "content_text": "Keep this document to one review outcome: Show-DnsServerCache: show dns server cache with bounded evidence. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting.\nSource fact:\nThe official Show-DnsServerCache from Microsoft supports the following bounded statements:\n\nAt DESCRIPTION, Microsoft states: “The Show-DNSServerCache cmdlet shows all cached Domain Name System (DNS) server resource records in the following format: Name, ResourceRecordData, Time-to-Live (TTL).” The research record locates this support at DESCRIPTION.\nAt Example 1: Show all resource records in a DNS server cache, Microsoft states: “This command shows all resource records that exist in a specified DNS server cache.” The research record locates this support at Example 1: Show all resource records in a DNS server cache.\n\nThese statements are the factual basis for this document. Do not extend them into a broader assurance. Review Windows DNS servers, AD-integrated zones, policies, forwarders, logging channels, clients, and administrative roles only where the source and recorded environment align.\nWhat the source does not establish\nThe cited page and retained statements do not establish the current state of any DSE or customer environment, prove that the documented configuration is applicable, or authorize a production change. Confirm supported versions, dependencies, and the current live source before use. No current deployment state or change approval follows from the source alone. Validate Active Directory replication, domain-controller health, service accounts, routing, time, certificates, and upstream resolution, and treat examples or options as conditional inputs rather than defaults.\nApplicability questions\n\nFor source statement 1 at DESCRIPTION, which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?\nFor source statement 2 at Example 1: Show all resource records in a DNS server cache, which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?\nWhich deployed instance of Windows DNS servers, AD-integrated zones, policies, forwarders, logging channels, clients, and administrative roles will be compared with the source, and why that instance?\nHow will the review distinguish a source mismatch from a failure in Active Directory replication, domain-controller health, service accounts, routing, time, certificates, and upstream resolution?\nWho approves the conclusion, exception, test window, and rollback threshold?\n\nDSE recommendation:\nDSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. Start with applicability, then compare the observed state with the cited source. Record the source location, examined part of Windows DNS servers, AD-integrated zones, policies, forwarders, logging channels, clients, and administrative roles, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation.\nDo not move from citation to production in one step. Pilot the decision where practical, observe agreed signals, retain a reversal point, and verify Active Directory replication, domain-controller health, service accounts, routing, time, certificates, and upstream resolution. Handle credentials, keys, recovery data, and personal information through approved secure channels.\nVerification and evidence\nKeep the source locations DESCRIPTION; Example 1: Show all resource records in a DNS server cache adjacent to the sanitized artifacts used for comparison. Prefer PowerShell exports, zone and policy inventories, sanitized query tests, event-channel data, replication state, and rollback commands, with enough identity and timing data for an independent recheck.\nLabel this evidence set DSE-20260827-280 so observations, approvals, exceptions, and later rechecks cannot be substituted from another source review.\nPreserve both successful and failed observations, along with approval and rollback evidence. Avoid uncontrolled production experiments. Assign an expiry or event-driven recheck so the conclusion is not treated as permanent.\nOfficial references\n\nShow-DnsServerCache — Microsoft",
        "content_markdown": "Keep this document to one review outcome: Show-DnsServerCache: show dns server cache with bounded evidence. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting.\n\n## Source fact:\n\nThe official [Show-DnsServerCache](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dnsserver/show-dnsservercache?view=windowsserver2025-ps) from Microsoft supports the following bounded statements:\n\n- At DESCRIPTION, Microsoft states: “The Show-DNSServerCache cmdlet shows all cached Domain Name System (DNS) server resource records in the following format: Name, ResourceRecordData, Time-to-Live (TTL).” The research record locates this support at DESCRIPTION.\n\n- At Example 1: Show all resource records in a DNS server cache, Microsoft states: “This command shows all resource records that exist in a specified DNS server cache.” The research record locates this support at Example 1: Show all resource records in a DNS server cache.\n\nThese statements are the factual basis for this document. Do not extend them into a broader assurance. Review Windows DNS servers, AD-integrated zones, policies, forwarders, logging channels, clients, and administrative roles only where the source and recorded environment align.\n\n## What the source does not establish\n\nThe cited page and retained statements do not establish the current state of any DSE or customer environment, prove that the documented configuration is applicable, or authorize a production change. Confirm supported versions, dependencies, and the current live source before use. No current deployment state or change approval follows from the source alone. Validate Active Directory replication, domain-controller health, service accounts, routing, time, certificates, and upstream resolution, and treat examples or options as conditional inputs rather than defaults.\n\n## Applicability questions\n\n- For source statement 1 at DESCRIPTION, which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?\n\n- For source statement 2 at Example 1: Show all resource records in a DNS server cache, which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?\n\n- Which deployed instance of Windows DNS servers, AD-integrated zones, policies, forwarders, logging channels, clients, and administrative roles will be compared with the source, and why that instance?\n\n- How will the review distinguish a source mismatch from a failure in Active Directory replication, domain-controller health, service accounts, routing, time, certificates, and upstream resolution?\n\n- Who approves the conclusion, exception, test window, and rollback threshold?\n\n## DSE recommendation:\n\nDSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. Start with applicability, then compare the observed state with the cited source. Record the source location, examined part of Windows DNS servers, AD-integrated zones, policies, forwarders, logging channels, clients, and administrative roles, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation.\n\nDo not move from citation to production in one step. Pilot the decision where practical, observe agreed signals, retain a reversal point, and verify Active Directory replication, domain-controller health, service accounts, routing, time, certificates, and upstream resolution. Handle credentials, keys, recovery data, and personal information through approved secure channels.\n\n## Verification and evidence\n\nKeep the source locations DESCRIPTION; Example 1: Show all resource records in a DNS server cache adjacent to the sanitized artifacts used for comparison. Prefer PowerShell exports, zone and policy inventories, sanitized query tests, event-channel data, replication state, and rollback commands, with enough identity and timing data for an independent recheck.\n\nLabel this evidence set DSE-20260827-280 so observations, approvals, exceptions, and later rechecks cannot be substituted from another source review.\n\nPreserve both successful and failed observations, along with approval and rollback evidence. Avoid uncontrolled production experiments. Assign an expiry or event-driven recheck so the conclusion is not treated as permanent.\n\n## Official references\n\n- [Show-DnsServerCache](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dnsserver/show-dnsservercache?view=windowsserver2025-ps) — Microsoft"
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