In this tutorial dedicated to Windows Server 2025, I suggest you see or review how to install the DHCP Server role in order to provide automatic IP configuration to the computers on your network. If you are familiar with the DHCP service in Windows Server, the implementation in Windows Server is identical. Before getting into …
Since Windows 2012, the DHCP role includes a high availability feature: DHCP failover. DHCP failover can be configured in two ways: active / active or active / passive. In the first case, the two servers operate simultaneously and share the load between them, in the second case the second will take over in case of …
Introduction In this tutorial, we will see how to modify the subnet mask of a DHCP scope on Windows Server. If we look in the properties of the scope, we realize that it is not possible to modify the subnet mask. The “modification” of the DHCP scope is done in several stages: Exporting the DHCP …
Introduction In this article, we will see how to configure the DHCP service so that you can use WDS to install Windows on computers with UEFI enabled, which is the case for Generation 2 virtual machines on Hyper-V. In a “standard” Active Directory deployment where DHCP and WDS services are installed on different servers that …
Presentation of IPAM IP Address Manager (IPAM) is a feature built into Windows Server that allows you to set up an administrator tool and analyze DHCP scopes and have an IP address base within a computer network. In a server environment where multiple Windows DHCP servers are in use, IPAM provides a single interface to …
In this tutorial, we will see how to install and configure a DHCP server on Windows Server in an Active Directory environment. As a reminder, the DHCP service makes it possible to distribute IP addresses to the hardware connected to a network that requests it. The DHCP request can be received directly from the hardware …
Présentation A DHCP relay is a service that listens for DHCPDISCOVER frames to transfer them to a DHCP server. The DHCP relay avoids installing a DHCP service by network segment (MPLS, VLAN …). Before configuring the relay firewall, the DHCP service must be an IP range for the segment where the relay will be configured. …