Authorize a DHCP Server in Active Directory Domain Services

  • Article

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

You can use this procedure to authorize a DHCP server in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).

Membership in Domain Admins, or equivalent, is the minimum required to perform this procedure.

To authorize a DHCP server in AD DS

  1. Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click DHCP. The DHCP Microsoft Management Console (MMC) opens.

  2. In DHCP, right-click the server name. For example, if the DHCP server name is DHCP-01.example.com, right-click DHCP-01.example.com.

  3. Click Authorize.

  4. Click Action, and then click Refresh. The IPv4 icon changes to indicate that the server is authorized in AD DS.