Windows server: DHCP failover configuration

Presentation 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 …

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WDS: DHCP configuration for UEFI

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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 …

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IPAM: IP Address Management with Windows Server – Installation and Configuration

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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 …

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DHCP server: installation and configuration on Windows Server

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 …

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Sophos XG configure a DHCP relay

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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. …

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