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Message from discussion Script to Import Reservations in DHCP Works on Server 2003 but not on Server 2008

Greg H

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More options Nov 23 2009, 2:16 pm

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From: Greg H <gphal...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:16:02 -0800 (PST)

Local: Mon, Nov 23 2009 2:16 pm

Subject: Re: Script to Import Reservations in DHCP Works on Server 2003 but not on Server 2008

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Thanks for the response. That scenario doesn't apply in our
situation. We don't have a database to import. We are moving from
statically assigned IPs to DHCP (yeah, I know, its 2009 and we are
using static IPs. Pretty funny. It's due to Security issues.)

We have a spreadsheet of hundreds of IP addresses of computers that
currently have static IP addresses. When we switch to DHCP, these
computers must have DHCP reservations so they have the same IP
addresses everyday instead of random addresses that DHCP normally
gives out. It's required for security purposes that the IPs not
change on these computers--the security details are too long to get
into.

Thanks,

Greg

On Nov 21, 12:23 pm, RemyMaza <remym...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 20, 7:57 am, Greg H <gphal...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > We need to import hundreds of DHCP reservations into our DHCP server
> > with the IP, name, type, MAC address. We have a script that worked
> > with 2003, importing the IP and MAC address but it does not work with
> > Windows 2008.

> > Below is our script. Does anyone have one that works with 2008 or can
> > help us modify our existing script?

> > Thanks.

> > ----
> > Set fso = Wscript.CreateObject

> > ("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

> > Set shell = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

> > Set ipList=fso.OpenTextFile("c:\ListFile.txt", 1, false)

> > Do While not ipList.AtEndOfStream
> > rLine=Trim(ipList.readLine)
> > MAC = Right(rLine, Len(rLine) - InStrRev(rLine, ","))
> > IP = Left(rLine, InStrRev(rLine, ",") - 1)
> > If not IP = "" or MAC = "" then
> > shell.run "netsh dhcp server scope 10.10.0.0 add

> > reservedip " & IP & " " & MAC, 0, True

> > End If
> > Loop

> > ----------------

> You should be able to simply export the DHCP database and import it
> into the 2008 server. Check the links below for help:

> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776587(WS.10).aspx

> http://blogs.technet.com/networking/archive/2008/06/27/steps-to-move-...

> Cheers,
> Matt

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