Introduction

  • 2 minutes

Learn to implement automatic IP configuration with Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) in Windows Server.

Scenario

Contoso, Ltd. is a financial services company in Seattle with major offices located throughout the world. Most of its compute environment runs on-premises on Windows Server. This includes virtualized workloads on Windows Server 2016 hosts.

Contoso IT staff are migrating Contoso on-premises servers to Windows Server 2022. As a Windows Server administrator, you are responsible for managing and maintaining the server infrastructure that will help Contoso achieve its business goals. As part of this role, you must deploy and maintain DHCP servers to automate the allocation of IP configurations within your organization.

After completing this module, you’ll know how to install, configure, and manage the DHCP server role on computers running Windows Server. You'll also know how to deploy and configure DHCP high availability options.

Learning objectives

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

  • Describe the DHCP Server role.
  • Install and configure the DHCP Server role.
  • Configure DHCP options.
  • Create and configure a DHCP scope.
  • Describe high availability options for DHCP.
  • Describe DHCP Failover and explain how to configure it.

Prerequisites

To get the best learning experience from this module, you should have knowledge and experience of:

  • Active Directory Domain Services concepts and technologies.
  • Windows Server.
  • Core networking technologies.
  • Windows client operating systems such as Windows 10.