As a System Admin you deploy DHCP server to give out IP addresses to client computers dynamically. While this eliminate boring routine work and overheads, you still need to control the IP assignment process to manage who get access to the network. This can be easily achieved by reserving an IP address for each client as opposed to letting them acquire a lease dynamically. In a large organization, it’s not easy task to assign a long list of IP address manually.

To accomplish above requirement, we can use DHCP PowerShell (introduced after Windows Server 2012) to manage DHCP reservations. Below are few of the cmdlets that can be used in DHCP Powershell. Continue reading →