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Monday, February 4, 2013

Problems importing a DHCP database backup from a Windows Server 2008 R2

Problem

You’ve successfully completed a backup of an existing DHCP server’s DHCP database with the following command:

netsh dhcp server export c:\dhcp.txt all

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However, when you attempt to import the backed up DHCP database onto the target server, you receive the following error:

netsh dhcp server import C:\dhcp.txt all

Error while importing option “15.”

This option conflicts with the existing option “” An internal error occurred.

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Solution

One of the reasons why you may experience this issue is because the target DHCP server already has a option 015 DNS Domain Name configured:

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In this situation, the easy way to fix the issue is to remove the defined option on the new DHCP server and try re-importing again.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yep, that worked but I had to delete all Server options for the command to complete. Thanks for posting the solution!

Anonymous said...

This is not a viable solution and defeats the purpose of exporting and importing the configuration.