System Center 2012 SP1's Virtual Machine Manager IP pools offer the same zero-effort IP addressing experience that desktop administrators have enjoyed for years. System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine ...

Manage your network more efficiently with a framework for maintaining and auditing IP address assignment, DNS zone health monitoring and more. Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer ...

Open the Server Manager and click on Manage > Add Roles and Features. Then, choose the Role-based or feature-based installation option and click the Next button. Next, choose the desired server from ...

I currently have a pair of 2012R2 DCs (migrated/upgraded from 2008R2) with a split-scope DHCP setup. There is a not-insignificant number of DHCP reservations in play, they are (or should be) identical ...

Q: A company's IT team is planning to deploy a DHCP failover infrastructure. The team needs to know how to configure failover servers using a shared secret between DHCP failover cluster nodes. Which ...

A few tips on how to make sure the DHCP infrastructure issuing IP addresses isn’t a single point of failure. Redundancy is essential for dealing with both planned and unplanned outages, and that ...

Years ago, I used to be a network administrator for an organization that had some rather odd security policies in place. One of the existing policies when I got there was that all computers had to be ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

The next version of the popular DHCP server Kea is gradually maturing, but before that, the manufacturer is releasing extensions as open source and for testing. The Kea-DHCP software package, which is ...