{"id":771,"date":"2013-06-05T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:46:11","slug":"how-to-migrate-dhcp-server-to-windows-server-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"How to Migrate DHCP Server to Windows Server 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Migrating existing services and server roles is an important part of the Server 2012 upgrade process.<\/p>\n<p>In the following <strong><a title=\"How to Migrate DHCP Server to Windows Server 2012\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/How-to-Move-DHCP-Database-to-Server-2012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Step-by-Step video tutorial<\/a><\/strong>, we demonstrate how to move your existing DHCP configuration and leases to DHCP 2012 Server. There are several ways you can perform this migration:<br \/>\n&#8211; using netsh utility (doesn\u2019t export complex configurations \u2013 ex. multicast scopes)<br \/>\n&#8211; using Powershell Export\/Import cmdlets in Server 2012 (same limitations as above, does not work with 2003 DHCP servers)<br \/>\n&#8211; using Server 2012 migration tools (requires extra admin efforts &#8211; installing server migration tools)<\/p>\n<p>In our Screencast, we demonstrate the last approach \u2013 using Server 2012 migration tools (smigdeploy.exe).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How to Migrate DHCP Server to Windows Server 2012\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/How-to-Move-DHCP-Database-to-Server-2012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"How to Migrate DHCP Server to Windows Server 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog-pics\/Migrate-DHCP-Config-and-Leases-to-Server-2012.png\" width=\"440\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned on <strong><a title=\"NetoMeter - Screencasts and Step-by-Step Video Tutorials\" href=\"..\/..\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NetoMeter<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; subscribe to<a title=\"NetoMeter - Screencasts and Step-by-Step Video Tutorials\" href=\"..\/..\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>NetoMeter RSS<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, we demonstrate how to move your existing DHCP configuration and leases to DHCP 2012 Server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[361,326],"tags":[348,347,349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}