From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Network Services

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DNS integration

DNS integration

Now that we've learned what DHCP does, how to configure the DHCP service in our environment, and how to hand out automatic IP addresses, let's look at some of the advanced DHCP concepts, starting off with DNS integration. One of the capabilities we have with our DHCP service in our environment, if we're running on a Microsoft operating system, is for DHCP to either register our client IP addresses and names in the DNS server service. So one of those issues that we have is, and you're going to hear this term possibly when you're out there, DHCP option 81. DHCP option 81 is the configuration of telling the DHCP server how we want it to interact with the DNS server in our environment, and the actual options we have is what we have here on this slide. So let me show you, instead of Memorex, let me show you the live environment. So if I bring up my DHCP server, and first of all, if I come into my DHCP server, and I come down to IPV4, and I scroll this out, and I look at my server options…

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