I'm going to be setting up a network in a new location (new office space). I've bought Meraki gear for the new location. This will be the corporate HQ. I'm currently running DHCP on my Windows Server ...

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 ...

You can not really have a backup DHCP server but what you can do is create scopes on each server that hand out half the IP ranges on your respective subnets. That way, should one go down, you still ...

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) simplifies networking by allowing a DHCP server -- any device with a DHCP server role, such as a modem or a router -- to assign Internet Protocol (IP) ...

BlueCat updates its Proteus platform to integrate with Windows DNS and DHCP services to enable centralized management of IP addresses and DNS/DHCP services. BlueCat Networks Tuesday announced it had ...

Q: A company's network administrator needs to ensure a specific IP address is never assigned by a Windows Server 2012 DHCP server to any device connecting to the network. Which of the following should ...

The DHCP Lookup Failed problem indicates that your PC was unable to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server. To interact with the router and the internet, each device requires an IP address. DHCP ...

Brien Posey shows how to configure Microsoft's tool for auto discovery and the management of IP addresses, which can improve administration of Group Policies. One of the new features Microsoft gave us ...

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 ...