For example, you may need to know: The scope of IP addresses that your server will manage e. Which machines require static IP addresses i. It is much easier to configure your DHCP server with this information at hand rather than scrambling for it at implementation time. During the installation, you might get prompted to insert your Windows Server or Advanced Server CD or locate the i folder on a local or network drive. Highlight Networking Services and click Details. Click Finish when prompted.
Figure A. Figure B. Without a time-limit, such an IP-address could not be reused. And if they come back from a 2 week vacation and the "lease" has expired, then the DHCP-server will assign a new IP-address to them. Then you need to configure the client computers with the IP-address of the Gateway or Router to be able to communicate with systems on the WAN. Enter the IP-address and then click on " Add " to enter the address to the list of Gateways.
Or do you intend to have clients connected to the Windows server via the new: " Active Directory " method? Then you must configure the clients for use of a DNS -server. Before you configure the DHCP service, you must install it on the server. You can install DHCP during the initial installation of Windows Server , or after the initial installation is completed.
After you have installed the DHCP service and started it, you must create a scope. Microsoft recommends that, each DHCP server in your environment has at least one scope that does not overlap with any other DHCP server scope in your environment.
If you want to exclude an IP address or range of IPs that fall within the scope you specified above you can enter that now. Select the Yes I want to configure these options now and click Next to continue. Enter your default gateway and click Add. Your default gateway will almost certainly be different. The next page allows you to define your parent domain and DNS servers. Since my host is already joined to active directory and has these settings configured they are already populated for me.
Most likely you will want to activate the DHCP scope so just click Next unless you have a need to activate it at a later time.
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