Using IP Address Management (IPAM) to keep track of your used IP addresses

The IP Address Management (IPAM) tool is a little-known utility built into Windows Server 2012 R2. IPAM is a way that you can centrally monitor and manage some of the common infrastructure roles spread out around your network. Most specifically for our recipe today, we will be taking a look at IP addressing by using IPAM.

Particularly in environments where there may be many different DHCP servers that are hosting different scopes spread out around your network, IPAM can be extremely useful for pulling all of that information into one management interface. This saves a lot of time and effort as opposed to launching the DHCP Management console on each of your DHCP environments ...

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