Windows 2008 - DHCP - New Production Environment

[Guest 2nd Lt Cat]

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