Configuring a DHCP Reservation

DHCP enables you to create an IP address reservation which means you can create an IP configuration for a specific host. If you need to change a host’s IP address later, you can just change the DHCP reservation (and refresh the DHCP lease on the host). You might have, for example, a printer that gets its IP configuration via DHCP.

For more information on DHCP reservations, see: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dhcpserver/add-dhcpserverv4reservation?view=windowsserver2022-ps

Getting ready

You run this recipe on SRV2. This host is a domain-joined server on which you have loaded both PowerShell 7 and VS Code. In Configuring IP Addressing, you configured the NIC in this host to have a static IP address. Later, in Using DHCP, you gave SRV2 a DHCP address.

How to do it...

1. Importing the DHCP Server module explicitly

   Import-Module -Name DHCPServer
   

2. Getting NIC’s MAC address for...