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I've never successfully moved a DHCP server via backup restore. &nbsp;I've always ended up reducing the lease time to a few hours on the old server, building a new DHCP server, turn off the old one and activate the new one. &nbsp;pretty straight forward and quick to do - just need to plan a little in advance to turn down the lease time.
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I've never successfully moved a DHCP server via backup restore.  I've always ended up reducing the lease time to a few hours on the old server, building a new DHCP server, turn off the old one and activate the new one.  pretty straight forward and quick to do - just need to plan a little in advance to turn down the lease time.

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We have server 2003 running as the DHCP server, we have implemented a new Windows 2012 R2 server. I have tried to backup the 2003 DHCP and restore it to the 2012 R2 DHCP. It says it was restored successfully, but it doesn't show any of our scopes? This is all done through the backup and restore under DHCP.
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We have server 2003 running as the DHCP server, we have implemented a new Windows 2012 R2 server. I have tried to backup the 2003 DHCP and restore it to the 2012 R2 DHCP. It says it was restored successfully, but it doesn't show any of our scopes? This is all done through the backup and restore under DHCP.

Moving DHCP Server to new server

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is an auto configuration protocol used on IP networks and an extension of the Bootstrap Protocol. DHCP allows for computers to be configured automatically to communicate with each other over an IP network without the need for manual setup by a network administrator. The implementation of DHCP relies on a DHCP server to hand out network configuration information to DHCP-capable clients that request an IP address (and other information required or useful in communicating with other devices on an IP network). In addition to an IP address, common configuration information served over DHCP includes a default gateway, subnet mask and DNS sever(s).