"There was once a dream that was DHCP.  You could only whisper it.  Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish..."<!--more-->

Finally.  This is the only word I can use to describe this post; finally.  DHCP is an unsung hero, sitting quietly in the background of just about every network in the world, yet this little service has been overlooked by Microsoft for the past decade.  Any administrator that has setup a reservation knows one of my biggest peeves with this service.  You'd think it wouldn't be that hard to right click a work-station's lease and say "add to reservation" or something to that effect.  Unfortunately I, like everyone else, have been manually typing MACs into my DHCP reservation table since inception.  The time has come for a change, and that time is now.

With Windows 2008 R2, we see one of the first overhauls in DHCP (in Microsoft's world) since they first built the service.  The reason I'm excited about this is due to some changes with MAC security built into DHCP but honestly being able to click a lease and add it to reservation deserves a special parade.  So this is a bit of a slap in the face, pat on the back for Microsoft.  Great job, you did it... finally!

For more features with DHCP in Windows 2008 R2 see the link below:

<a href="http://blogs.technet.com/teamdhcp/archive/2009/02/26/new-features-in-dhcp-for-windows-server-2008-r2-windows-7.aspx">http://blogs.technet.com/teamdhcp/archive/2009/02/26/new-features-in-dhcp-for-windows-server-2008-r2-windows-7.aspx</a>