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Networking Improvements

One area in which networking has been improved in Windows Server 2008 is its implementation of DHCP. The following sidebar has been excerpted with permission from a couple of posts on the Microsoft Windows DHCP Team Blog found at http://blogs.technet.com/teamdhcp/. It provides an overview of DHCPv6 support in both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista:

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