Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many administrators forget—or don't even realize—that they can configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) on Cisco IOS routers and switches. David Davis discusses the pros and cons of this ...

DHCP stands for dynamic host configuration protocol. What it does is dynamically assign network settings from a server. In other words, instead of having to configure the parameters related to how ...

This article is also available as a TechRepublic download. Most of the time, when a Windows related article talks about audit logs, those logs are security related. When it comes to the DHCP services ...

Currently I have a pfsense router with DHCP/DNS Resolver enabled. Therefore anything in the lease or static mappings can be reached using an FQDN. I use that quite heavily. However, I would like to ...

Systems administrators differ on the helpfulness of assigning static IP addresses for networked printers. Leaving the printers set to Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, would be the ...