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Configuring DHCP failover

Configuring DHCP failover - Windows Server Tutorial

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Configuring DHCP failover

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- [Narrator] Back in Windows Server 2012, Microsoft added in a wonderful High Availability tool to the DHCP server role, and that is called DHCP failover. Now this functionality still exists in Windows Server 2016. But in order to configure DHCP failover you have to be able to establish a failover relationship between two DHCP servers. Now, up to this point, in the other videos in this course, you've seen that DC-1 has been set up and fully configured as a DHCP server. What I've also done, is I have installed the DHCP server role on DC-2. Alright, so that way we have two DHCP servers. So let's take a look at DC-2, just real quick here, to see how it's been set up. So, here in the server manager, I'm going to go to the Tools menu and select DHCP. First of all, the fact that DHCP was there tells you that the role is installed, and then secondly, I want to add that in here you can see all the green circles with the check mark because what I did was I installed the role and then I also…

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