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 ...

Open the Server Manager and click on Manage > Add Roles and Features. Then, choose the Role-based or feature-based installation option and click the Next button. Next, choose the desired server from ...

A few tips on how to make sure the DHCP infrastructure issuing IP addresses isn’t a single point of failure. Redundancy is essential for dealing with both planned and unplanned outages, and that ...

Internet Protocol (IP) networks utilize Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol or DHCP as a standardized network protocol since it is a safe and reliable configuration. It enables users to dynamically ...

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 ...

Not sure if this belongs here or in the MS forum, because I can't imagine many of you are using Windows as an OS on a networking device, so please move if necessary. As I mentioned in this thread, I'm ...

Microsoft has announced that a recent security update released in June 2025 is causing trouble for some businesses using Windows Server computers as their main network managers. The problem affects ...

Last week, Microsoft pushed an update to Windows 10 that broke DHCP and knocked some users offline until they rebooted their systems. The update is believed to have been part of cumulative update KB ...

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) ...