DHCP scope futures

• Scope name page – you can give your scope a name
• IP address range – you can define starting and ending IP address of the scope and the subnet mask. You should choose consecutive address range of the subnet and later exclude the computers with static addresses.
• Add exclusions – these are the addresses that will not be leased to DHCP clients
• Lease duration – length of lease
• Configure DHCP options – whatever to configure DHCP options for the scope through further pages in the wizard or later in the DHCP console, you can configure options at the reservations level, scope level or server level. There are more than 60 different DHCP options.
• Router (Default Gateway) – optional, which default gateway should be assigned to DHCP clients
• Domain name and DNS servers – optional, which domain will be assigned as parent and which DNS servers will be given to the DHCP client
• WINS servers – optional, addresses of WINS servers that are to be assigned to the DHCP client
• Activate scope – optional, whatever the scope will be activated after the DHCP wizard finishes

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