Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

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re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

Joey — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:44:32 GMT

How do you move a DHCP database from 2008 back to 2003? I get errors following the steps above.

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

nukeitmike — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:59:35 GMT

What would cause the snapin to display a red x on the "Address Leases" and "There are no items to show in this view."? The reservations are there, but it won't show anything in the lease view.

This is after a somewhat troubled attempt at moving from a 2003 DHCP server to a 2008 DHCP server.

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

Sameer N.Mirza — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:41:43 GMT

Joey,

what errors do you get? You get error while exporting 2008 database or while importing the same in 2003?

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

DavidJob — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:43:33 GMT

when moving from a windows 2003 Server, French localized version, to a windows 2008 English localzied version, I get an error :

"Error while importing class "Default Routing and Remote Access Class." This class conflicts with the existing class "Classe de routage et d'accès distant par défaut." An internal error occurred."

Is there a workaround or I'm stuck rebuilding all by hands ?

Thx.

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

Paul Bell — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:12:55 GMT

I am also experiencing the "Red X" and "There are no items to show in this view." issue with the above process. I did this once before and it worked fine. DHCP, by the way, seems to be working...I just can't see the leases from the console.

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

pbrock@peopesbank-wa.com — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:33:45 GMT

I too am getting the red X on the leases after trying to move DHCP from a windows 2003 to a 2008 server. For now I am reverting back to my windows 2003 DHCP server but I would like to pull that out of the mix of servers as soon as possible.

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

Joe Vlachos — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:27:51 GMT

When we manage the server from another 2003 member server, we can see all of the address leases. It's almsot as if the snap-in on the 2008 server is not working.

We created a new scope on the 2008 server and we can see all of the addresses on that scope.....another Windows mystery?

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

michaellsf — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:19:26 GMT

Did any one find a solution for the red x on the DHCP lease?

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

Eric — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:37:08 GMT

Are there any changes if you need to move from 2000 to 2008?

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

Andrey_Ra — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:15:33 GMT

We all need solution for the red x on the DHCP lease!

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

Andrey_Ra — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:22:03 GMT

I found interesting post in internet:

Windows 2008 - DHCP - New Production Environment

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Hi All

I will be writing in here to pass on some of my experiences with

Windows 2008 RTM, MS have sponsored a project for us where a largish

organisation will be deploying around 40 W2K8 servers, primarily File,

Print and Network Services.

I have to admit so far the migration has been going well, until DHCP,

this has caused no end of grief. We are over it now, but this is

important to perhaps save other people time.

1. Do not even bother to import an export from W2K3 database, they do

not import correctly killing the capability to issues addresses,

eventually we are now just re-creating new scopes. We experienced a

few seperate issues importing the DBs

a) Importing did not bring over lease information

b) Importing did not bring back all reservations and when it did,

address leases displayed a large red X over the item and stopped

issuing addresses.

2. Do NOT delete your scope and restart the services for DHCP, they

will not start with an error "The specified file cannot be found" and

you find yourself re-installing the DHCP role.

Hope this give others a heads up.

Mike

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re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

Ricardo Fernandes — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:43:22 GMT

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962355

It worked!

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

Brian J — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:49:58 GMT

Great steps, but I'm about to upgrade to a Win2k8 domain from Win2000. What would the process be for moving a database there? Would it just be that the steps from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325473 apply? Or would I have to go from Win2k - Win2k3 - Win2k8?

Thanks!

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

Brian — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:58:34 GMT

You should update this article as you do not have to have an account that has an explicit local administrative membership. You do not have to reboot into Directory Services Restore Mode for a DC. Instead, you just have to run the CMD prompt as Administrator when launching it.

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

mdgrkb — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:58:39 GMT

Hi, everyone.

Wanted to let you know I'm having the problem described in this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/169290/en-us , but on a Windows Server 2008 box....

Seems like someone picked up an old library when building 2008...

The workaround is not to use superscopes, but it makes it more difficult to manage when the server has tens of scopes...

Greetings

re: Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

David — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:13:23 GMT

is there an upgrade path to move WINS from a Windows 2000 Domain to a Server 2008 Domain?