Adding Applications to our Windows Environment (DHCP)

So far we have specify static IPs on all our VMs. It would be handy if some guest VMs have the option to get a dynamic IP Adress trough DHCP. 

We can install a DHCP Application on our Windows Server. I am using the same Server that I have installed AD DS and DNS Services - My Primary Domain Controller. 

On a Windows 2008R2 machine, we can go to Start > Administrative Tools in order to Open Server Manager. 

DHCP is a Server Role, so we select our Server and right click > Add Roles

We will skip the intro page

Select the DHCP Server role 

We will get a review about the DHCP Role

We will specify which interface will accept DCHP requests - at the momene we only have one interface which is selected by default.  

We will specify our Main DNS Server : 10.10.10.1

We won't use WINS Server (legacy) 

We can add a Scope, where we can specify the available address pool (10.10.10.201-230), the lease day (default 8 days), the subnet mask (255.255.255.0) /24, and the default gateway 10.10.10.254.  

We won't enable DHCP for IPv6 - we will keep DHCP stateless mode.  

We have to authorize the scope before it can release IP Addresses to the clients.  

The installation doesn't require a reboot. 

On the Server Manager, if we expand DHCP Server > IPv4 and the Scope created, we can check if any IP addresses has been release to the clients under Address Leases.