Hi all, I have a question and maybe someone can shed some light if they are familiar with this. So recently I set up a failover for DHCP on an active directory network for two DHCP servers. They are ...

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 ...

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 ...

The authorization of DHCP server failed with Error Code: 20079. The specified servers are already present in the directly service. If the DHCP server is not ...

Microsoft acknowledged a new issue caused by the June 2025 security updates, causing the DHCP service to freeze on some Windows Server systems. On Windows Server systems, the Dynamic Host ...

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 ...

IT admins are in for a rude awakening yet again as it seems that the latest Patch Tuesday updates have broken the DHCP Server service in numerous versions of Windows Server, including 2025. Microsoft ...

Have you ever scrolled through the Windows Server DHCP logs in the Notepad app while trying to troubleshoot something? Then you know that it's a tedious task. There are many alternatives to Notepad ...

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 ...

'Scopes' and 'classes' of IP addresses can help to logically organize address ranges by users and devices within Windows DHCP Server. Whether in an existing network or a new one, there is an aspect of ...

If Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) didn’t exist, network administrators would have to manually parcel out IP addresses from the available pool, which ...