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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook
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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

by Jordan Krause
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
248 pages
7h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a DHCP scope to assign addresses to computers

In the Configuring a combination Domain Controller, DNS server, and DHCP server recipes, we installed the DHCP role onto a server called DC1. Without some configuration, however, that role isn't doing anything. In most companies that I work with, all of the servers have statically assigned IP addresses, which are IPs entered by hand into the NIC properties. This way, those servers always retain the same IP address. But what about client machines that might move around, or even move in and out of the network? DHCP is a mechanism that the clients can reach out to in order to obtain IP addressing information for the network that they are currently plugged into.

This way, users or admins ...

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