Installing Windows Server 2008 DHCP Server

Installing Windows Server 2008 DCHP Server is easy. DHCP Server is now a “role” of Windows Server 2008
To do this, you will need a Windows Server 2008 system already installed and configured with a static IP address. You will need to know your network’s IP address range, the range of IP addresses you will want to hand out to your PC clients, your DNS server IP addresses, and your default gateway. Additionally, you will want to have a plan for all subnets involved, what scopes you will want to define, and what exclusions you will want to create.

To start the DHCP installation process, you can click Add Roles from the Initial Configuration Tasks window or from Server Manager à Roles à Add Roles.

When the Add Roles Wizard comes up, you can click Next on that screen.Next, select that you want to add the DHCP Server Role, and click Next.

If you do not have a static IP address assigned on your server, you will get a warning that you should not install DHCP with a dynamic IP address.At this point, you will begin being prompted for IP network information, scope information, and DNS information. If you only want to install DHCP server with no configured scopes or settings, you can just click Next through these questions and proceed with the installation.

On the other hand, you can optionally configure your DHCP Server during this part of the installation.In my case, I chose to take this opportunity to configure some basic IP settings and configure my first DHCP Scope.

An example  shown the network connection binding and asked to verify it, like this

Next, I entered my Parent Domain, Primary DNS Server, and Alternate DNS Server  and clicked Next.

If you don’t need WINS  opted NOT to use WINS and  click Next.Then you configure a DHCP scope for the new DHCP Server. An example  to configure an IP address range of 192.168.1.50-100 to cover the 25+ PC Clients on  local network. To do this, You have to  clicke  Add to add a new scope. As you see below, I named the Scope WBC-Local, configured the starting and ending IP addresses of 192.168.1.50-192.168.1.100, subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, default gateway of 192.168.1.1, type of subnet (wired), and activated the scope.

Then  clicke Next to add the new scope (once the DHCP Server is installed).Then select  to Disable DHCPv6 stateless mode for this server and clicked Next.Then,  confirmed Your  DHCP Installation Selections (on the screen below) and clicked Install.

Windows Server 2008 DHCP Server Installation succeeded

Then Clicke Close to close the installer window, then moved on to how to manage my new DHCP Server.Managing Windows Server 2008 DHCP Server is also easy. Back in your  Windows Server 2008 Server Manager, under Roles, clicke on the new DHCP Server entry.

While You cannot manage the DHCP Server scopes and clients from here, what You can do is to manage what events, services, and resources are related to the DHCP Server installation. Thus, this is a good place to go to check the status of the DHCP Server and what events have happened around it.

However, to really configure the DHCP Server and see what clients have obtained IP addresses, You  need to go to the DHCP Server MMC. To do this,  You went to Start à Administrative Tools à DHCP Server, like this:

When expanded out, the MMC offers a lot of features. Here is what it looks like:

The DHCP Server MMC offers IPv4 & IPv6 DHCP Server info including all scopes, pools, leases, reservations, scope options, and server options.

If You go into the address pool and the scope options, You  can see that the configuration You made when  installed the DHCP Server did, indeed, work. The scope IP address range is there, and so are the DNS Server & default gateway

DHCP Server Address Pool

Now, let’s test to make sure it works.To test

Start –Run –cmd-ipconfig /renew

If  you get like this your DHCP server is Working properly

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