{"id":1339,"date":"2013-06-27T05:38:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T05:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2018-09-06T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T23:16:00","slug":"how-to-set-up-dhcp-in-windows-server-2008-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"How to Set Up DHCP in Windows Server 2008 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sshot-34\" alt=\"sshot-34\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sshot-341.png\" width=\"652\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today we\u2019re going to show you how to setup DHCP on Windows Server 2008 instead of using it on a router.<\/p>\n<p>This guide assumes that you have Server 2008 up and running on a machine. You should also have set a static IP address on the server before continuing.<\/p>\n<p>To get started, fire up the Server Manager, right click on roles, and then select add roles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sshot-1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sshot-114.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"470\" border=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You will be prompted with the normal \u201cBefore You Begin\u201d screen, and after clicking Next you\u2019ll be able to choose DHCP Server.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sshot-2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sshot-214.png\" width=\"643\" height=\"487\" border=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next you\u2019ll want to select the network connection to bind the DHCP protocol to.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sshot-3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sshot-34.png\" width=\"644\" height=\"487\" border=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Put in the IP address of your DNS Server, which in this case is the same machine\u2013but be careful not to put the loopback address (127.0.0.1) as this will be the address your clients will go to for name resolution.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sshot-4\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sshot-42.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"486\" border=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click next again to skip the WINS setup, this will bring you to creating a DHCP Scope, where you can click the Add button.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sshot-5\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sshot-53.png\" width=\"647\" height=\"487\" border=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now you need to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Give your scope a name<\/li>\n<li>Enter the first address that you want available to clients to use<\/li>\n<li>Enter the last address that you want available to clients to use<\/li>\n<li>Enter the subnet mask (usually 255.255.255.0)<\/li>\n<li>Enter the IP address of your default gateway (usually your router IP at .1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sshot-7\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sshot-73.png\" width=\"488\" height=\"399\" border=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you have clicked on OK, you can click next 4 times to get to the confirmation screen where you can finally click install.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sshot-8\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sshot-83.png\" width=\"648\" height=\"487\" border=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the installation is complete your DHCP will be functioning, and you can start managing your DHCP server right away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sshot-9\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sshot-93.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" border=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we\u2019re going to show you how to setup DHCP on Windows Server 2008 instead of using it on a router. This guide assumes that you have Server 2008 up and running on a machine. You should also have set a static IP address on the server before continuing. To get started, fire up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dhcp","category-general-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}