Lesson 4: Windows Server Core and DHCP Servers in Server 2008

Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Coach Culbertson

Now that you know how to install Server 2008 and Active Directory and create users and groups let’s move on to Server Core and DHCP.

So what is Server Core? Well it’s basically a stripped down version of Server 2008 and there are a lot of neat things about it.

Today we’ll focus on Server Core and the DHCP role and I’ll demonstrate the installation, configuration and setup steps.

Here’s what we cover today:

Server Core – we’ll talk about what Server Core is, how to best utilize it and what the pros and cons of using the core are. I’ll also go over the Server Core roles and when they come in handy.

Server Core install and core commands — next we’ll look at the installation and the Core commands that you need to know for things like getting system information, renaming the machine, or joining a domain. I’ll also demonstrate how to use the command line here.

DHCP Role installation — now we move on to installing the DHCP role and the critical commands that you need to know to perform the install, configuration and starting the DHCP service

Setting up the Firewall — we’ll do this so that we can perform remote administration using MMC on our Server Core

Installing RSAT — in setting up the Firewall, you may need to install the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) to include the MMC Snap-in for a particular role, so I’ll show you how to do that

Creating an MMC — since not everybody thinks the command line is cool, we’ll use the MMC to connect to our DHCP server

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Windows Server HQ by Train Signal.com » New to Server 2008? No problem — Learn about Server 2008 for FREE! Says:

June 30th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

[...] Server Core & DHCP [...]
Rami Says:

March 8th, 2010 at 5:16 am

I tried to netdom join VPDHCP with the domain verdepetra but this message kept appearing
the specified domain either does not exist or can not be contacted
do I need special setting in vmware 7 ???
Robert Says:

May 2nd, 2010 at 9:38 pm

Why don’t you add a sharing method for your videos.
Juan Says:

August 14th, 2010 at 5:40 pm

Same problem here.

“I tried to netdom join VPDHCP with the domain verdepetra but this message kept appearing
the specified domain either does not exist or can not be contacted
do I need special setting in vmware 7 ???”