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Are all of the clients on the same VLAN as the DHCP server? If they are on different VLAN's you need to specify a DHCP Helper address on the workstation VLAN (if there is one). <br />
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You also need to make sure that your DHCP server is actived and the scopes are enabled. <br />
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Are all of the clients on the same VLAN as the DHCP server? If they are on different VLAN's you need to specify a DHCP Helper address on the workstation VLAN (if there is one).

You also need to make sure that your DHCP server is actived and the scopes are enabled.

Will.

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They are on the same LAN. &nbsp;All are pulling from the same scope. &nbsp;<br />
Thanks
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They are on the same LAN.  All are pulling from the same scope.  
Thanks

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169.x.x.x is the APIPA address which means it cannot contact a DHCP server. When you run ipconfig /all does it show any network adapters that are DHCP enabled?<br />
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Will.
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169.x.x.x is the APIPA address which means it cannot contact a DHCP server. When you run ipconfig /all does it show any network adapters that are DHCP enabled?

 

Will.

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I missed a option in the scope of dhcp. &nbsp;thanks
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I missed a option in the scope of dhcp.  thanks

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I have a Server 2012 R2 that is running DHCP\DNS. &nbsp; The clients are getting a 169.254.xx.xx DNS server address for primary and 192.168.0.2 as secondary. &nbsp; The server does have dual NICS but one is disabled. &nbsp;I checked DNS and DHCP scope options, all is good. &nbsp;Communication to server is not interrupted everything is working fine. &nbsp; Any ideas?
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I have a Server 2012 R2 that is running DHCP\DNS.   The clients are getting a 169.254.xx.xx DNS server address for primary and 192.168.0.2 as secondary.   The server does have dual NICS but one is disabled.  I checked DNS and DHCP scope options, all is good.  Communication to server is not interrupted everything is working fine.   Any ideas?

Server 2012 DHCP\DNS

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.