Microsoft Windows DHCP Team Blog

DHCP Failover using PowerShell

teamdhcp — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:46:00 GMT

DHCP failover allows administrators to ensure high availability of DHCP service by ensuring that in the event of a DHCP server going down, DHCP clients are able to extend the leases on their current IP addresses by communicating with another DHCP server...(read more)

Scalability Test Results for Windows Server 2012 DHCP Server

teamdhcp — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 04:22:00 GMT

Introduction This blog article provides data from tests conducted on server hardware (from different vendors and with different configurations) using Windows Server 2012 that depict how the different DHCP server operations scale with increasing hardware...(read more)

DHCP Policies using PowerShell

teamdhcp — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:16:00 GMT

The DHCP server role in Windows Server® 2012 introduces DHCP Policies also referred as Policy Based Assignment (PBA), a feature that enables users to create policies at scope or server level for assigning IPv4 addresses and options to DHCP clients...(read more)

DHCP PowerShell Export Import cmdlets in Windows Server 2012

teamdhcp — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:58:00 GMT

DHCP PowerShell in Windows Server 2012, in addition to providing cmdlets for DHCP server management, provides cmdlets for exporting ( Export-DhcpServer ) and importing ( Import-DhcpServer ) DHCP Server configuration and IP address lease data. Unlike NetSH...(read more)

Automatic syncing of scope configuration changes between 2 DHCP failover servers

teamdhcp — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:28:00 GMT

DHCP Failover is a new feature in Windows Server 2012 which provides for high availability of DHCP service. Two DHCP servers in a failover relationship synchronize the IP address lease information on a continual basis there by keeping their respective...(read more)

Bulk load DHCP Reservations using DHCP PowerShell

teamdhcp — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:44:00 GMT

Many organizations deploy DHCP server but choose to have complete control over the IP addresses given out to client computers. This is achieved by reserving an IP address for each client as opposed to letting them acquire a lease dynamically. If you are...(read more)

DHCP MAC address Filter management made easy with DHCP PowerShell

teamdhcp — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:03:00 GMT

Security and network administrators are increasingly wary of internal security threats, in addition to threats from the outside, due to the introduction of uncertified hardware and software on the network, such as personal portable computers and mobile...(read more)

DHCP policies based on Relay Agent Information Option (option 82), DHCP Snooping and IP Source Guard

teamdhcp — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:12:00 GMT

Introduction DHCP server in Windows Server 2012 provides support for provisioning customized IP address and network configurations to DHCP clients using DHCP policies. Policies can be created based on several criteria one of which is relay agent information...(read more)

Setting up DHCP Policies for Virtual Machines

teamdhcp — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:46:00 GMT

Introduction With the trend towards private cloud and hosted cloud deployments, the use of virtualization is ubiquitous. This has also increased the need for better control of these virtualized environments with respect to IP address and network configuration...(read more)

Using DHCP policies to set different lease durations for different device types

teamdhcp — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:17:00 GMT

Introduction An enterprise network has several types of devices – desktops, printers, mobiles, laptops etc. An enterprise administrator would need to ensure that all these different types of device are provisioned appropriately for network connectivity...(read more)