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Team DHCP wants your feedback!

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  1. Is there a particular feature in DHCP (eg. reservations, callout DLL, failover, netsh, ...) that interests you?

  2. Have you customized the DHCP server, using scripts or external utilities to suit your environment?

  3. Are there features, that you would like to see, in the next version of your favorite DHCP server?    

    If you have answered "Yes" to any of the above, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us at msnetworkteam_AT_live_dot_com.

    thanks,

    Ajay

    Team DHCP

     

    (Keywords : DHCP, reservation, failover, mac filter, callout dll, split scope, 80-20 setup)

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Great post, explained really well and I could really understand. Thank you.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Don't know if my last post was missed so just resending... I'm trying to set up a Windows Server 2008 CCR cluster using (non-Microsoft)DHCP for the Client Access networks. Can you let me know what I need to enter for the MAC Address/Unique ID information on the DHCP server? Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Can you provide more information: On which OS are the Dhcp clients running. Also, please mail Wireshark packet captures to rrasblog@microsoft.com, when Laptops are connected to the wire.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Did you use Windows Cluster?     What tools and scripts did you use for this?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    The state government department I work for has a small central team managing the central DHCP service. Would really like to be able to delegate site specific scopes/superscopes to field support engineers responsible for each site (access control based on AD Group/User) Is this a possibility in a future version of DHCP?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Chris, What I meant was actually missing PTR record only. You need to have Reverse Lookup Zone configured for PTR records to get registered. I guess I should have been more specific. Raunak Pandya

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I would really like to see a feature like CCR known from Exchange 2007 working with DHCP server. That would be a cost effective solution that enables administrators to patch their servers without service disruption.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    hi, i tried to make a redundant DHCP system with 2 nos. of servers in Cluster, with Microsoft tools and some simple scripts..it works fine.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Thanks for the feedback Si, The ability to convert a lease to reservation by right clicking is there is Windows Server 2008 R2 DHCP Server. You may want to grab your hands on the Beta version available for download @ the Microsoft site. Regarding the naming of unique id to MAC address, most of the DHCP clients uses MAC address as the unique id similar to the old BOOTP protocol. However, this value need not be MAC address always and can be changed by Vendors and System Administrators hence the name Unique ID :) Thanks Raunak Pandya DHCP Server Team

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hi Pierre, Can you please elaborate on your specific need to allocate scope/IP addresses based on relay agent information option (option 82). Kindly provide the details here on the blog or email at teamdhcp_AT_hotmail_dot_com or msnetworkteam_AT_live_dot_com. Thanks, Prasad Team DHCP

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Setup a Windows 2008 cluster with DHCP.. The dhcp server snapin hangin up and enumerating the zones and reservations very slowly like taking 5 to 10 minutes to fully populate.. Any help would be appreciated..

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I'd like to see PowerShell Cmdlets to manage DHCP.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hey Craig, Try the following In NetShell go to the interface ipv6 prompt, netsh interface ipv6 > set interface <interface number>  advertise=enabled  manageAddress=enabled . Here <interface number> is the name or id of the interface to which you have IPv6 binding to DHCP server. Please let me know if you still face any problem. Raunak Pandya DHCP Server Team

  • Anonymous
    August 25, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2008
    I am having a problem with DHCP.  We currently have two DHCP servers that hand out addresses.  Some times there are laptops that are on the wire for a day or two and then off the wire for a long period of time.  We have the lease time for 30 days.  We have had some issues where a laptop gets a lease for 30 days goes off the wire and comes back on the wire within 30 days and gets a different ip address.  This also happens with desktops sometimes too.  Has anyone else seen this problem.  Also there has not been a ipconfig /release done when the system leaves the wire Mike

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2009
    Ability to right click on a lease and turn it into a reservation. Or at least right click on a lease and copy the MAC address. And preferably call MAC addresses "MAC addresses" instead of "unique id"...

  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2009
    Just installed Windows 2008 cluster with Dhcp. I am experiancing problems with the dhcp snapin being very slow and hanging up when trying to access the dhcp server on the cluster.. Any suggestions? Andrew

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2009
    Hi Raunak, the problem is not the Reverse lookup zone, it is the missing pointer record (PTR) of the virtual cluster name in the Reverse lookup zone. I had exact the same problem, with a configured Reverse lookup Zone. When I add the PTR Record, the snapin worked perfect! Chris

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2010
    We are setting up a new virtualized windows 2008 R2 DHCP servers at a new data center which will also be 100% virtualized. We will need to import existing DHCP scopes from four other areas into the new servers.  What is the best way to bring those scopes into the new servers?  Each area is using a majority of a Class-B each.  Can we just do a Superscope for each area and bring in all their networks so they are organized on the new servers by their Superscope?   also, being this is going into a virtualized environment, would you suggest a clustering option being as we are not messing with their  current configuration, or would you suggest using a split-scope option? Thank you

  • Anonymous
    September 23, 2010
    I'm interesting on a particular feature that doesn't exist yet in MS DHCP server: the possibility of allocating a scope with the infirmation contained in the field option 82 (RFC 3046).

  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2011
    Wow, if Team DHCP can't even know why we need option 82 in our network, we'll not see any Windows DHCP server with this capability soon (bet I will check this blog entry in 10 years with same hope).