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Active Directory and DHCP go hand-in-hand. Your Domain Controllers aren't always your DHCP servers, but under a certain scale, they very likely are.
by noobface 3y ago
Active Directory and DHCP go hand-in-hand. Your Domain Controllers aren't always your DHCP servers, but under a certain scale, they very likely are.
- forgotusername6 3y agoIf you create a brand new domain, it will automatically configure it to be the DHCP server by default.
- blakes 3y agoThat's true of DNS, not DHCP. One has to specifically install the DHCP role in a new AD domain.
- EvanAnderson 3y agoI'm a 20+ year Windows sysadmin and I don't buy it. If you'd said "Active Directory and DNS go hand-in-hand" I'd agree-- the coupling there is pretty tight (and it's a pain-in-the-ass to run Active Directory with non-Microsoft DNS servers being authoritative for the AD domain name). DHCP is a lot less tightly coupled.