There may be instances where you need to migrate servers to the newest operating system or the latest applications.

Have you ever thought of migrating your current DHCP server to maybe a standalone DHCP server? The reason I ask is typically you would have see a server providing DHCP functions along with one or two and this probably wouldn’t be necessary. Maybe you want the service on a newer hardware platform?

Regardless of the reason, this is the simple process of migrating the DHCP information from one server onto your freshly built Windows 2003 DHCP server:

From the source DHCP server, export the DHCP information:

At the command line: netsh dhcp server export c:\dhcp.txt all

Copy the dhcp.txt file to the local hard disk of the destination (new) DHCP server

From the destination DHCP server, import the DHCP information:

First verify the DHCP service has started.

At the command line: netsh dhcp server import c:\’full path of dhcp.txt file’ all

Then in the DHCP console, right click on the domain and authorize the server.

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