Understanding Active Directory
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Although the features mentioned in the previous section likely compel most system administrators to use NTFS, additional reasons make using it mandatory. The most important reason is that the Active Directory data store must reside on an NTFS partition. Therefore, before you begin installing Active Directory, make sure you have at least one NTFS partition […]
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One of the nicest advantages to IPAM is the ability to audit the different services that you are monitoring. In today’s complex IT world, we all have many different servers and applications that we are running to get our job done. We use Microsoft products and non-M icrosoft products to accomplish the tasks that help […]
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DHCP name protection is an additional configuration option that you should consider when working DHCP within your environment. Name protection protects a DHCP leased machine’s name from being overwritten by another machine with the same name during DNS dynamic updates so that you can configure a Windows 2022 DHCP server to verify and update the […]
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In Windows Server 2022, you can create and manage both IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP scopes for your organization. Even though they are managed separately, they have the same capabilities of being able to configure reservations, exclusions, and other DHCP options. Unlike an IPv4 client, a DHCPv6 client uses a device unique identifier (DUID) instead of […]
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Multicasting occurs when one machine communicates to a network of subscribed computers rather than specifically addressing each computer on the destination network. It’s much more efficient to multicast a video or audio stream to multiple destinations than it is to unicast it to the same number of clients, and the increased demand for multicast-f riendly […]
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You can use the DHCP snap- in to assign options at the scope, server, reserved address, or class level. The mechanism you use to assign these options is the same for each; the only difference is where you set the options. When you create an option assignment, remember that it applies to all the clients […]
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The first option configuration page is the Router (Default Gateway) page (see Figure 6.10), in which you enter the IP addresses of one or more routers (more commonly referred to as default gateways) that you want to use for outbound traffic. After entering the IP addresses of the routers, use the Up and Down buttons […]