Should i allocate reservations or exlusions in my DHCP scope for the IP addresses of my servers in the domain or will the fact that the servers all have a static IP address assigned to them be enough?

 

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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Add reservations, that way nothing else will take the IP by mistake :) - just remember to document this as when it comes to new hardware you will need to change the MAC addresses etc.

I'm going to tell you what we did just because I went through this with our department when I came one.  What we did for our network is we excluded the address from the DHCP Scope, because it was easier for us to carve out a subnet for our servers and printers or even start you scope on a higher number.  I don't know your subnet setup now so I'm just telling you from our experience.  My question is for you is to give us a brief overview of how you have things now.  Please use fake addresses, because we don't need to know everything.

This is how we setup new schools in our district:

10.x.1.1 - 50           Are for your Servers

10.x.2.1 - 50           For Network Printers

10.x.3.1 - 8.254      Client Computers    This is where our scope starts and ends.

The other reason we did this is for migrating to new servers the tools that Microsoft gives you doesn't export the reservations.  So they would have had to be put back by hand and with over 700 Servers and 2000 Printers I wasn't going to do it.

 LZ-KID

 

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The fluffy midgets in my head tell me to format everything and hope the end user knows how to backup their data.

We have a relatively small setup, and what has been done is a portion of the network addresses have been set aside for the servers so their scopes are not even in listed DHCP. Seems to work ok but i will perhaps look at getting them setup with excluded addresses.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.