DHCP authorisation for subdomains

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

While setting up multi-forest, multi-domain environment to test an Exchange 2010 deployment I decided to do something that I hadn’t done when setting up these tests before - I implemented DHCP on one of the domains - all so I could bring up clients as required.

Installing the DHCP service was as easy as usual. Then I came to authorising the server in my child active directory domain.

Lucky I found a MS article on it -Â http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303351. I logged onto a first-forest-domain as an enterprise administrator and ran the command:

netsh dhcp add server

And then to verify that it worked:

netsh dhcp show server

No need for GUI tools, always a good thing :). But whenÂ I went back to my DHCP server it was still showing as unauthorised - after a quick restart of the service everything was working as it should.

Dhcp on Neale's Corner

DHCP authorisation for subdomains