Thursday, November 12, 2015

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 - DHCP

I installed Windows 10 on my PC a few weeks ago, along with MS Office 2016.  What a nightmare!  I was able to get along for about a month and then just got tired of dealing with things not working right.  I was going to go back to Windows 7 but then decided to "Reset This PC" under Settings/Update & Security/Recovery.  I used the option to wipe out all installed software/user data and start fresh.  So far, so good.  No major issues and everything works.  I went to install the Remote Server Admin Tools for WIndows 10 and found there was no DHCP management MMC snap-in.  Well that sucks!  There are powershell commands, but I like the old method better.  I poked around Google and found a post on reddit that tells how to do it.  Initially it didn't work for me but reading through the comments, the full answer was there.  So, here is the summary of what was needed to make it work for me.

1.  Copy dhcpsnap.dll and dhcpmgmt.msc from c:\windows\system32 from my one of my server 2012R2 dhcp servers and put them in system32 in my local pc.

2.  Copy dhcpsnap.dll.mui from c:\windows\system32\en-us on my 2012R2 dhcp server to the same folder on my pc.

3.  Open a command prompt as an administrator and type "regsvr32 dhcpsnap.dll" and press enter.

4.  Open dhcpmgmt.msc and it works like it did when I was running Windows 7!