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<p class="MsoNormal">Thinking about upgrading you current DHCP servers to 2008?<span> </span> Worried about the integrity of the reservation tables being carried over?<span> </span> Want to <em>change</em> the name of the server?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Believe it or not, the process is extremely simple to move your DHCP data from one server to another with little to no downtime.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s the steps:</p>

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	<li><!--             [if !supportLists]--><span><span><span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"> </span> </span> </span> <!--             [endif]-->On the 2003 DHCP server, open a command prompt (<em>run&gt;cmd)</em></li>
	<li><!--             [if !supportLists]--><span><span><span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"> </span> </span> </span> <!--             [endif]-->Type the command <strong>netsh dhcp server export C:(filename).txt all </strong> (<em>filename.txt is your chosen name of the exported file</em> . <em>Note you must have local admin rights to perform this command</em> )</li>
	<li><!--             [if !supportLists]--><span><span><span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"> </span> </span> </span> <!--             [endif]-->Copy the exported file to a folder locally on the 2008 server</li>
	<li><!--             [if !supportLists]--><span><span><span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"> </span> </span> </span> <!--             [endif]-->Then on the new 2008 DHCP server, open a command prompt (<em>run&gt;cmd)</em></li>
	<li><!--             [if !supportLists]--><span><span><span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"> </span> </span> </span> <!--             [endif]-->Type the command <strong>netsh dhcp server import c:(filename).txt</strong> (<em>filename.txt is the file that you previously exported and named on the 2003 server</em> )</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Again, you must have local admin permissions to perform the import.<span> </span> If you receive the message…<em>Error initializing and reading the service configuration – Access Denied…</em> you must redo steps 4 and 5 after you log in with local admin permissions.<span> </span> After performing the import, just verify the tables are the same before you unauthorized the old server.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And, that’s all there is to it.<span> </span> A simple way to upgrade DHCP from 2003 to 2008.<span> </span> This procedure will also work when moving between two 2008 servers as well.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you are looking for more in depth information about thus migration please click <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962355" target="_blank">here</a> for a Microsoft knowledge base article.</p>