Configure name server settings (VBScript)

This code can be found in Chapter 14 of DNS on Windows Server 2003

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' Configure several name server settings

' ---------------------------------------------------------------
' From the book "DNS on Windows Server 2003" 
' By Cricket Liu, Matt Larson & Robbie Allen
' Publisher: O'Reilly and Associates
' ISBN: 0-596-00562-8
' Book web site: http://rallenhome.com/books/dnsonw2k3/toc.html
' ---------------------------------------------------------------

strServer = "terminator.movie.edu"

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set objDNS = GetObject("winMgmts:\\" & strServer & "\root\MicrosoftDNS")
set objDNSServer = objDNS.Get("MicrosoftDNS_Server.Name="".""")

Wscript.Echo objDNSServer.Name & ":"
' See Table 14-1 for an explanation of each of these settings
objDNSServer.EventLogLevel = 4
objDNSServer.LooseWildcarding = TRUE
objDNSServer.MaxCacheTTL = 900
objDNSServer.MaxNegativeCacheTTL = 60
objDNSServer.AllowUpdate = 3
objDNSServer.Put_

if Err then
   Wscript.Echo " Error occurred: " & Err.Description
else 
   WScript.Echo " Change successful"
end if

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