AD DHCP

In an Active Directory (AD) environment, DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) automatically assigns IP addresses to devices on the network. It ensures seamless network communication by dynamically providing IP addresses, subnet masks, and default gateways to clients.

We will now be configuring windows AD DHCP

To setup the DHCP server we will require to Add the server role of DHCP server under the Add Roles & Feature tab inside manage section of Server manager

The installation of AD DHCP role is installed here and now we will have to configure the same to initialize the DHCP server

Click on complete the DHCP server configuration to initialize the configuration section of AD DHCP

Now the AD DHCP feature is installed and authorized by the AD DC and now we will configure the DHCP role under Role > DHCP from the top right of server manager

Now we will define the scope under the IPv4 section inside the domain controller on the top left section of DHCP dashboard

We will have to specify the IPv4 lease range with the start & end address and specify the netmask address and continue to add exclusion to any static IP address in the next option menu

We will specify the lease time to allocate the DHCP lease to the AD clients

Select No we will configure it later

As we can see now the DHCP pool is configured and now we will initialize the DHCP server pool

Upon activating the DHCP server pool will be activated and the AD server will start pushig IP addresses to the clients of the allocated pool in this settings , We can verify the active DHCP leases under the stastics option undert the IPv4 block to get stats of the DHCP server.

We have now sucessfully configured the DHCP server in the AD DHCP and in the next section we will learn about configuring users & groups on the AD domain.