DHCP Failover for Datacentre and Branch offices

Hi,

I am looking to make our DHCP service resilient. At present there is just a
DHCP server at 10 different sites. What i would like to do is to install 2
DHCP servers into our datacentre and then have the branch offices failover to
the datacentre in the event of a server problem etc.... can someone please
give me some pointers as i have not done anything with DHCP for some time.
We are using W2K3 Enterprise on 4 servers in the data centre, the rest are
just W2K3 Server.
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Regards,

Jen

hi,
you can use the 80/20 design rule for balancing scope distribution of
addresses where multiple DHCP servers are deployed to service the same scope,
or create a DHCP cluste
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true
or on clients specify alternate configuration.


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Dragos CAMARA
MCSA Windows 2003 server


"JenH" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking to make our DHCP service resilient. At present there is just a
> DHCP server at 10 different sites. What i would like to do is to install 2
> DHCP servers into our datacentre and then have the branch offices failover to
> the datacentre in the event of a server problem etc.... can someone please
> give me some pointers as i have not done anything with DHCP for some time.
> We are using W2K3 Enterprise on 4 servers in the data centre, the rest are
> just W2K3 Server.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Jen