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 ...

How does one "shake off" some dhcp leases where I don't know who has the IPs?<BR><BR>Scenario: I had some VoIP phones on the staff LAN that snared some IPs from my DHCP server. But I find my self ...

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 ...

As I prefaced in my previous article “Free Migration Tools to Windows 2008 R2” about these free migration tools from Microsoft that help organizations migrate from Windows 2003 and 2008 servers and ...

Hi all, I have a question and maybe someone can shed some light if they are familiar with this. So recently I set up a failover for DHCP on an active directory network for two DHCP servers. They are ...

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