Configuring IP addressing

By default, Windows uses DHCP to configure all NICs that the Windows installation process discovers when installing Windows. Once you complete the Windows installation, you can use the control panel applet (ncpa.cpl), the network shell console application (netsh.exe), or, of course, PowerShell to set IP configuration manually. In this recipe, you set the IP address details for SRV2 and ensure the host registers DNS names in the Reskit.Org DNS domain (on the DNS service running on DC1).

Setting up any host requires setting an IP address, a subnet mask, and a default gateway, which you do in the first part of this recipe. Then, you configure SRV2 (a workgroup host) to register with the DNS server on DC1.Reskit.Org. This approach raises some challenges. By default, when you create DC1.Reskit.Org as a DC, the domain promotion process sets the domain's DNS zone to require secure updates. That means a workgroup host cannot register. You can overcome this...