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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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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