Search domain means the domain that will be automatically appended when you only use the hostname for a particular host or computer. This is basically used in a local network. Lets say you have a domain name like xyz.com (it may be available globally or may be local only) and you have 100 computers in the LAN. Now you want this domain name to

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Hello Experts I've configured a DHCP Pool for a customer who wants the router to also give out a couple of dns suffixes to the clients. This is what I've done. Can you please advise how i can get it to work ? ip dhcp pool LAN import all network 10.106.0.0 255.255.0.0 default-router 10.10

Yes, this is definitely the correct way to use WMI to modify your DNS domain suffix search order. You will have to adjust your code slightly to use this, as the EnableDNS method is called against the class (Win32_NetworkAdapterConfi guration).

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In thinking about this - I mentioned adding additional domains to the search suffix list. While this is doable for a few PCs, or if you are using DHCP, I was thinking - For the primary things you'll be searching for by shortname from the 'other' domains, create cname records in the local domains pointing to the real host in the real domain.