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February 2009 - Posts

New features in DHCP for Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows 7
What are the major changes? The DHCP server in Windows Server 2008 R2 has invested in the areas of security, reliability, manageability and usability. Similarly on the DHCP Client in Windows 7 has invested on certain optimization for obtaining IP Address. Read More...
Migration of DHCP Server from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008
Microsoft product support team often encounters migrated DHCP servers which are dysfunctional. The reason quite often for the bad state of the DHCP server is because backup/restore has been used by the customers for migrating the DHCP server across server Read More...
MAC Filter Import Tool
Hello Everybody, Thanks for all those who tried the MacFilterCallout dll . As you all must have checked out by now that Link Layer Filtering feature is a part of Windows Server 2008 R2 DHCP Server. DHCP Server team has come up with a GUI based tool which Read More...
DHCP Broadcast flag handling in Windows 7
1. DHCP Broadcast flag: DHCP messages have ‘flags’ field. The first bit in this field indicates whether the client is expecting a broadcast or unicast response from the DHCP server \ Relay agent. When the bit is set to 1, it indicates that the client Read More...
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