Theoretically, the DHCP servers should feed the correct information for DNS to windows 7 clients. Unfortunately, presently, I am experiencing an increased occurrence of DNS related troubles on my subnets. That is putting a “hitch in my giddy-up” as they say for imaging computers for the new semester …

To mitigate the trouble I am adding static information to DNS settings using a group policy setting … This doesn’t fix imaging but it will allow people to use the computers with more reliability once they are imaged …. To get the imaging done I can revert to using local hard drives if I have to …

Also, static entries are being added to the bottom of the “Hosts” file in: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

# Settings added to mitigate DNS drops – summer 2011 – Lynna
127.0.0.1 localhost
137.165.4.2 lee.williams.edu
137.165.4.21 lenox.williams.edu