This is a video on the DHCP console for Windows Server 2008. There are many settings to be configured in the console that are complex and hard to understand. DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It is the service that leases IP addresses to clients. You can choose what cards to bind the DHCP [...]

A Media Access Control (MAC) address is burned into every network card made. With Windows Server 2008, it is possible to allow or deny a computer or client from getting an IP Address based on a list of MAC Addresses. This is controlled by the DHCP server and is a new feature in Windows Server [...]

When a computer receives an IP Address from the DHCP server, it often receives extra information such as listings for DNS server, Default gateway, BootP server, etc. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a way of assigning IP Addresses to clients on a network, but networking is often useless without this extra information.

DHCP reservations are used similar to static IP Addresses. The DHCP server is programmed that when a certain MAC address shows up, that MAC address is always assigned the same IP Address. The client is configured for DHCP configuration. This video is made using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. DHCP is a networking [...]

DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol) is a service that gives IP Addresses to clients. To have that service you need a DHCP server. Here I build a DHCP scope. A scope is the term used for the range of addresses given to the DHCP server. Windows Server 2008 uses server manager to manage these roles.

This video will show how a registry hack (regedit) can change your default remote desktop port (3389) to another port. When your ISP only provides one IP address, you can use this hack to edit which machine you want for remote desktop by stating the port in the remote desktop window. I run several virtual [...]

This video shows how to set up a Linksys wireless router. I’m using a model wrt110, but all Linksys routers are amazingly similar. Even if you don’t have a Linksys router, you may learn enough to configure your own wireless router. I show the many options that Linksys routers can do such as NAT, DHCP, [...]

How to set a static IP Address on Server 2008 through command line and GUI. Also how to modify automatically provided IP Addresses (APIPA). Commands used… netsh interface ipv4 set address “Local Area Connection” static 10.0.0.2 255.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 1 netsh interface ipv4 set dnsserver “Local Area Connection” static 10.0.0.1 primary netsh interface ipv4 set address [...]

How to subnet. It’s amazing the number of network guys that I meet that never understand IP Addresses. I’ve had to explain it so many times, that I’ve pretty much got a routine down. I’m to the point now that it becomes hard to slow down to explain this stuff to othe

This a video about installing Windows Server 2008 core on VirtualPC. Server 2008 core is a command line only version of server 2008 that requires 256 ram and 3 GB of hard drive space. Watch as I install the machine, set an IP address, rename the machine, join a domain, promote it to a domain [...]