This document provides instructions for installing and configuring DHCP server role on Windows Server 2012 and setting up a DHCP failover scope for high availability. It describes steps to install the DHCP role, complete post-installation configuration, authorize the DHCP server, configure an IP address scope, set up failover between two servers for the scope, and verify the failover configuration. Figures and screenshots are referenced to illustrate the interface.

1. Name:Abdualziz Mohammed Saeed al-Juhani
Division: 33221
Trainer Name: Ibrahim Abdullah Eid Odaini
Number academic 114331631:
Install and Configure DHCP
role on Windows Server
2012
Setup: Installing the DHCP role
- Start the Server Manager

2. - Click Add Roles and Features from the Manage Menu
- On Add Roles and Features wizard begins and click Next

3. - Select the Role-based or feature-based installation option and click Next
- If you have more than one server managed via the server manager
console, then select the desired server you’d like to install DHCP
on

4. - From the Roles lists, check the DHCP Server role, click Add Features on the popup
windows
- Click Next

5. - Select additional features you desire or leave as default and click Next

6. - Keep in mind ‘Things to note’ and click Next

7. - Confirm information on summary page and click Install
- After install is completed, click Close

8. Post Deployment
- Click on the warning icon and then click on ‘Complete DHCP Configuration’
- On DHCP Post-Install wizard, click Next

9. - On Authorization, select a domain user account that has permissions to create objects
in the Net Services container in Active directory (For security lock-down) or simply use a
domain admin account and click Next

10. - Confirm on summary page that the security groups had been created and Authorizing
DHCP server role done. Close the screen

11. Configuring a DHCP Failover Scope
Figure 1
The IP address configuration is also done in the typical way that we have done in any DHCP server up to this point.

12. Figure 2
Now that we have our demo scope available, we will right-click the Scope in the DHCP Manager console and
selectConfigure Failover:
Figure 3
The Failover Configuration wizard opens up with a list of scopes that are available to protect. In our sample, we have
the 10.20.30.0/24 scope:

13. Figure 4
Next up we are asked about assigning a partner server for our scope. We will be using one named PartnerServer in
our example:

14. With the scope configured for hot standby failover, we now have a fully operational scope that is getting
asynchronous updates from the source server to keep track of current leases, reservations, options, and any other
scope-specific configuration parameters. It’s just that easy!

15. For our own curiosity, it is good to check what the failover scope looks like. You simply open the target DHCP partner
server, expand the scopes and right-click the failover scope in the DHCP Manager window. On the properties page
there is a Failover tab which displays all of the information about the connection.