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Deploying and configuring core network services

This tutorial discusses the vital infrastructure services that virtually every network must implement. Every computer on a TCP/IP network must have at least one IP address, and most networks today use the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to assign those addresses.

To access resources on the Internet and to locate Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain controllers, TCP/IP computers must have access to a Domain Name System (DNS) server. Windows Server 2012 includes all of these services and provides the tools to manage them.

In this tutorial:

  1. Configure IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
  2. Classless Inter-Domain Routing
  3. IPv4 subnetting
  4. Assigning IPv4 addresses
  5. IPv6 addressing
  6. IPv6 address types
  7. Assigning IPv6 addresses
  8. Planning an IP transition
  9. Tunneling
  10. Configure servers
  11. DHCP communications
  12. Deploying a DHCP serve
  13. Using PXE
  14. Deploying a DHCP relay agent
  15. Deploy and configure the DNS service
  16. DNS server caching
  17. DNS forwarders
  18. Deploying a DNS server
  19. Creating resource records