DHCP Role On Windows 2019 Core

To set up Windows server 2019 use the Step By Step Installation Of Windows Server 2019 Standard.

 

I have created a Windows core server named TM_DHCP. The below image is showing the Server configuration. To open the server configuration use the “Sconfig” command in PowerShell. The server is already part of the test domain.

 

 

First, we will install DHCP using the windows admin Center. I have added that to Windows Admin Center for easy management.

 

 

Under Roles and Feature, select DHCP and click install.

 

 

It will remotely calculate the dependencies for the DHCP role on the server.

 

 

Once the checks complete, it will start installing the DHCP role on the server.

 

 

It will take a few minutes for the role to get installed.

 

 

To manage more using PowerShell, install the DHCP PowerShell tools. 

 

Now we can configure the DHCP server using Windows Admin Center.

 

 

The second method is to install DHCP using PowerShell on Windows server 2019 core.

 

Open PowerShell as administrator and run the below command to install the DHCP role on the server.

 

Install-WindowsFeature DHCP -IncludeManagementTools

 

 

Once the DHCP install is complete, we will start the configuration.

 

First, we will create a DHCP security group using the netsh command.

 

netsh DHCP add securitygroups

 

 

Restart-Service dhcpserver

 

 

Authorize the DHCP server in Active Directory using “add-DhcpServerInDC” command.

 

Add-DhcpServerInDC -DnsName TM-DHCP.Domain.com -IPAddress 10.0.64.7

 

 

Use Get-DHcpServerInDc to verify the DHCP server authorized in Active Directory.

 

Get-DHcpServerInDc

 

 

To assign IP to the requesting system, we now have to create Scope. With the scope, we will also configure the DHCP options like DHCP Exclusion range, Default gateway, DNS server IP address, and DNS domain name.

 

Add-DhcpServerv4Scope -name "Internal" -StartRange 10.0.64.1 -EndRange 10.0.64.254 -SubnetMask 255.255.255.0 -State Active

 

 

Add-DhcpServerv4ExclusionRange -ScopeID 10.0.64.0 -StartRange 10.0.64.1 -EndRange 10.0.64.10

 

 

Set-DhcpServerv4OptionValue -OptionID 3 -Value 10.0.64.1 -ScopeID 10.0.64.0 -ComputerName TM-DHCP.Domain.com

 

 

Set-DhcpServerv4OptionValue -DnsDomain teammicro.dom -DnsServer 10.0.64.5

 

 

To test the new DHCP server, I used two different systems, Windows Core and Windows 10 for the IP assignment using the newly-created DHCP server.

 

 

Below is the Windows Admin Center view to check the configuration on the DHCP server.

 

 

Now the DHCP server is up and ready for use.

 

Conclusion

 

We have covered the Step by Step install and configuration process for the DHCP role on Windows server 2019 core.

 

Thank you for reading.