Re: Windows DNS plus router DHCP

> We were thinking of moving the DHCP service off of Windows Server and
> let the router handle it.


The question would be why do you want to do this? What is driving this? You
should have more of a reason than "just thinking".

MS servers handle DHCP just fine and they can have DNS Active Directory
integrated if you put DNS on the DCs. Windows servers were designed to run
with DHCP and DNS and the do a better job with AD integrated DNS than you
router will.

Why?

hth
DDS

"Tom M" <> wrote in message
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> We have a relatively small network -- ten or so computers, some
> network printers, etc. We have a few Windows Server 2008 VM's running
> Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, printer services, etc.
>
> We were thinking of moving the DHCP service off of Windows Server and
> let the router handle it. Do we need to take DNS off of it as well?
> Or should both DNS and DHCP be run off of the router? We'll obviously
> need to update the GPO so that network computers know the DHCP/WINS/
> DNS servers, but I wasn't quite sure if we needed to offload the whole
> the thing to the router or if we can get away with just the DHCP.
>
> Thoughts appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Tom