Hands-on exercises

To support your learning with some practical skills, we will utilize concepts and understanding gained from the earlier sections of this chapter and put them into practical application.

We will look at the following exercises:

• Exercise—implementing DNS
• Exercise—implementing DHCP

Getting started

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Let us move on to the exercise for this chapter.

Exercise – implementing DNS

This section will look at implementing the DNS network service using Windows Server.

We will need access to a Windows Server OS computer for this exercise.

Task – installing the DNS role

In this task, we will...