DHCP scopes in W2K3

[Vertigo]

Anyone know how I can tie different DHCP scopes to different groups of computers in Windows 2003 Server?

Need different scopes for desktops, servers, printers etc etc but can't work out how to do it.

 

[Vertigo]

User classes only work for determining specific scope options, from what I can see.

Reservations will be used to fix the addresses dished out to certain machines but I can't set up reservations for everything that doesn't currently exist and might be added at some future point.

I can't find anything which lets me tie a scope to a group of computers. Unless I'm missing something it doesn't seem possible which is frankly staggering.

 

[Vertigo]

I obviously want servers/printers/routers/switches to have fixed addresses but would rather have them allocated by reserved leases on the DHCP server than actually static.

All I've come up with so far is setting the scope to the range .1 to .254 and then excluding .1 to .99 so that it starts dishing out addresses from 100 upwards. I could then set reservations for addresses below 100. What I don't know is whether the server will issue these reservations when they're part of an exclusion range. Time for some testing methinks.

 

[Vertigo]

Nah i'm pretty sure the reserved IPs must be part of a scope.

Works like a charm!

The addresses are part of a scope (.1 through .254) but are also part of an exclusion within that scope (.1 to .99). The DHCP server will thus assign addresses from .100 onwards without problems but I am also able to add reservations for addresses below .100 and it will issue these addresses despite them being within the exclusion.

 

[Vertigo]

Do reservations not have to be within the scope then? Can't say I've ever tried that.

Oh well, it works which is all I need right now and I have a million other things to do. Been configuring switches this afternoon.