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I have option 15 set in DHCP (Windows server 2008) to put domain.com on the end of the computers that are getting IP addresses. However, I was under the impression that if they were not computers that were joined to the domain it would list them is PCname., without the domain extension, but I can see ones showing up with a name.domain.com that are not joined. Is there any way to configure it so that only the ones joined to the domain show up as name.domain.com and then the other ones are just listed as Hostname.?<br />
Should I remove that option 15 I have set in DHCP for this?
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I have option 15 set in DHCP (Windows server 2008) to put domain.com on the end of the computers that are getting IP addresses. However, I was under the impression that if they were not computers that were joined to the domain it would list them is PCname., without the domain extension, but I can see ones showing up with a name.domain.com that are not joined. Is there any way to configure it so that only the ones joined to the domain show up as name.domain.com and then the other ones are just listed as Hostname.?
Should I remove that option 15 I have set in DHCP for this?

domain suffix is applied to non-domain joined computers through DHCP...

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is an auto configuration protocol used on IP networks and an extension of the Bootstrap Protocol. DHCP allows for computers to be configured automatically to communicate with each other over an IP network without the need for manual setup by a network administrator. The implementation of DHCP relies on a DHCP server to hand out network configuration information to DHCP-capable clients that request an IP address (and other information required or useful in communicating with other devices on an IP network). In addition to an IP address, common configuration information served over DHCP includes a default gateway, subnet mask and DNS sever(s).

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Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.