Summary

This chapter covered the DHCP lease process as it relates to TCP/IP configuration information for clients. The following stages were covered: IP discovery, IP lease offer, IP lease selection, and IP lease acknowledgment. We covered how to install and configure the DHCP server on Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as how to create and manage DHCP scopes and scope options. We also discussed the authorization of DHCP servers within Active Directory and scopes for IPv4 and IPv6 and showed how to create them. We covered superscopes as well as managing client leases with the options therein.

Even though we covered DNS in detail in Chapter 2, we discussed some extra concepts and pieces needed for the MCTS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Infrastructure exam ...

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