Windows Server 2025: DHCP and DNS

Course details

DHCP is an important concept to understand for any network or systems administrator, as it allows you to automatically assign IP address information to all your endpoints. DNS, meanwhile, is essential to resolve names to IP addresses to make Active Directory and name resolution work correctly. In this course, professor Robert McMillen explains how DHCP and DNS work in the context of a Windows Server 2025 environment. He first shows how to install, manage, troubleshoot, and create all the DHCP settings needed for your network—even remote networks. He then covers the important aspects of DNS—installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Active Directory DNS and standard DNS zones. Robert ends the course with demonstrations on managing both DHCP and DNS using management consoles, PowerShell, IPAM, and Windows Admin Center.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Install and configure Windows Server 2025 DHCP and DNS
02 - Lab setup

1. DHCP Overview

03 - What is DHCP
04 - DHCP on various devices
05 - The importance of DHCP in the enterprise
06 - Get hands-on

2. Setting Up DHCP

07 - Installing the DHCP server role
08 - DHCP authorization
09 - Creating scopes
10 - Configuring DHCP options
11 - Scope activation
12 - Client configuration for DHCP
13 - Get hands-on experience

3. Managing DHCP

14 - Setting up reservations
15 - Setting up exclusions
16 - Import and export databases
17 - Scope reconciliation
18 - DHCP filters
19 - Get hands-on experience

4. Advanced DHCP

20 - DHCP failover and high availability
21 - DHCP failover setup
22 - DHCP relay using switches and routers
23 - Routing using DHCP
24 - DHCP policies
25 - Split scope
26 - DHCP in a failover cluster
27 - Get hands-on experience

5. DNS Overview

28 - DNS importance with Active Directory
29 - DNS manager overview
30 - Important Active Directory DNS records
31 - Get hands-on experience

6. Deploying DNS

32 - Install DNS on a member server
33 - Client DNS configuration
34 - DNS forwarders
35 - Get hands-on experience

7. DNS Zones

36 - Forward DNS zones and AD integration
37 - Reverse DNS zones and AD integration
38 - Secondary zone creation
39 - Stub zone creation
40 - Get hands-on experience

8. DNS Resource Records

41 - Forward and reverse zone records
42 - Alias (CNAME) records
43 - Mail (MX) records
44 - Get hands-on experience

9. Advanced DNS

45 - DNS queries
46 - DNS cache
47 - Conditional forwarders
48 - Get hands-on experience

10. DNS Security

49 - DNS cache locking
50 - DNS socket pool
51 - DNS security extensions
52 - DNS zone signing
53 - Get hands-on experience

11. DHCP and DNS Management

54 - Managing DNS and DHCP using Admin Center
55 - Managing DNS and DHCP using IPAM
56 - Get hands-on experience

Conclusion

57 - Next steps