IPAM

The IP Address Management (IPAM) feature built into Windows Server 2022 is overlooked by many server administrators because it is a feature and not a full-blown role inside Windows. IPAM is a technology that allows centralized monitoring and management of DHCP and DNS in your environment. If all of your infrastructure is sitting inside one building, it is easy enough to simply use the DNS and DHCP management tools from any server or workstation in your network and have full control over both of those technologies. But how about larger and enterprise-class networks that span many locations, each with its own sets of DNS and DHCP servers? IPAM is useful for gathering up all of those differing namespaces and scopes and providing access to them from one interface.

Let’s install the IPAM feature in my lab so you have an idea of where to start, should you choose to employ this feature. Begin by choosing a server upon which you want to install IPAM, and simply walk through...