All Windows Server operating systems support Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) that businesses can use to assign IP addresses to computers on the company network automatically. DHCP lets ...

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 ...

I'm going to be setting up a network in a new location (new office space). I've bought Meraki gear for the new location. This will be the corporate HQ. I'm currently running DHCP on my Windows Server ...

You may encounter issues when configuring the network settings of your server if there is a bug in your OS’s version. Even though there is no official confirmation ...

Have you ever scrolled through the Windows Server DHCP logs in the Notepad app while trying to troubleshoot something? Then you know that it's a tedious task. There are many alternatives to Notepad ...

As I prefaced in my previous article “Free Migration Tools to Windows 2008 R2” about these free migration tools from Microsoft that help organizations migrate from Windows 2003 and 2008 servers and ...

Microsoft has announced that a recent security update released in June 2025 is causing trouble for some businesses using Windows Server computers as their main network managers. The problem affects ...

Rocky Linux has become one of the de facto standard replacements for CentOS. Not only is it a drop-in replacement for RHEL, but the maintainer Gregory Kurtzer has made it clear Rocky Linux will always ...

The DHCP Lookup Failed problem indicates that your PC was unable to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server. To interact with the router and the internet, each device requires an IP address. DHCP ...

The next version of the popular DHCP server Kea is gradually maturing, but before that, the manufacturer is releasing extensions as open source and for testing. The Kea-DHCP software package, which is ...