About Me
I work as an Lead Solutions Architect for MNC involving various technologies. Primarily, focus is on solution planning & designing. I do have full time job and personal life dedicated to my loved ones. When, I’m not working/blogging, i prefer spend the time with family and friends. Few of my pastimes interests are listening to music, eating & sleeping…:-). My professional experience is around 9 years, which includes designing, migrating, restructuring, implementations, DR & BCP. I have worked with numerous enterprise client across the globe.
This blog is an effort to provide a platform to others to learn and enhance technically & professionally. I have been able to acquire my knowledge through various platform including online blogs as well. My core skills are solution planning designing & disaster recovery. I love to learn from others and contribute to others learning & growth through this blog.
I’m actively participating in MS Technet Forums & Experts-Exchange (timely participation) for Directory services & Exchange server on various issues..I would be obliged to receive any suggestions or feedback to improvise this platform. I would be updating my blog time to time with the newest article dealing with various platforms. You can contact me through Contact Me page at the upper right tab.
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Awinish
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Dheeraj Rai said
nice to see your blog sir.
Awinish said
Thank you for your comment Dheeraj, as i learned & wanted to give something back to technology, so others can gain too.
BTW, its just a beginning & hope its worth for others too.
Robert Stevenson said
Hi Awinish,
I’m a second year IT student at Auckland University of Technology, our major assignment for the first half of this year is on Optimal Networks and Management using MS AD. We need to research and come up with a possible solution (doesn’t need to be functioning as such) to any areas where AD can be improved. I’m looking at DNS, DHCP (including the management of IP Addresses) and MMC as the specifics of my focus.
I’ve been posting this question at forums to get the expert’s thoughts:
A question to all you network admins who keep DNS and DHCP wheel turning in your respective organizations. If you had a magic wand and you could improve ANY aspect of your current version of (or upcoming) DNS and DHCP, what would they be?
It was suggested that you’re one of the leading experts in this and that I should certainly get your thoughts.
Appreciate your time if valuable so don’t want to take it for granted, I would be grateful if you can give some of your personal and brief thoughts, it will be referenced back to you in the submission if you wish or it can be kept strictly confidential.
Cheers,
Bob
Awinish said
Hi Rob,
I guess you raised the similar question
on Technet too, but didn’t specify the details you are looking for.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverNIS/thread/7be3e44d-d991-4c2c-85af-19c72bd8aa7d/
I don’t know what recommendations your are looking for but as for DNS & DHCP concerned they both work in correlation if they are configured in AD.DNS has to be AD-Integrated(Best Practices) to have more control & security over DNS records updation/modification/deletion etc. Configuring DHCP on server part of the active directory domain would be better option than on router, like dynamic update of clients in DNS, auditing, security enhancements, scope configuration, DHCP server authorization permission etc which provide more secure way of DHCP server access & control. If you are looking anything specific, let me know.
You can use 80/20 DHCP rule for high availability
80/20 rule
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc958936.aspx
DHCP
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778368%28WS.10%29.aspx
DNS
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759550%28WS.10%29.aspx