July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
669 pages
16h 40m
English
book
Windows® 7 Desktop Support and Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond
by Darril Gibson
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7.5. Summary
In this chapter you learned about many of the basics of networking with Windows 7 clients. TCP/IP is used in Microsoft networks, and for the most part, TCP/IP works the same in Microsoft networks as it does in other networks.
The majority of Windows 7 clients in an enterprise receive TCP/IP configuration via DHCP. You learned how the DHCP lease is generated and some of the obvious symptoms that indicate something is wrong with the DHCP lease (such as a 169.254.y.z address).
Name resolution resolves computer names to IP addresses. DNS is the primary method used, and three tools that are very valuable when troubleshooting DNS and other networking issues are Ping, IPConfig, and NSLookup.
The Network and Sharing Center is a central ...