Snap-in Failed to Initialize when using DHCP Management

Hi All,

I am having Windows 2003 Server + SP1 with Active Directory on it.
He has the DHCP service Installed on.

When trying to open the DHCP Snap-in, I am having problem with open
Address Leases and Resevations Categories.
The DHCP is active and working, but from now, I cannot do anything with the
reservations.
This problem occurs aslo when trying to open the dhcp Snap-In from different
server.

Has Somebody seen that before ?
It that related to Latest Pathes installed? SP1 ?

Please, Help

Thank you
Sion

Hi Sion,

Please find the response inline...

-Tanu Mutreja [MSFT]
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"sion" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi All,
>
> I am having Windows 2003 Server + SP1 with Active Directory on it.
> He has the DHCP service Installed on.
Hopefully you mean DHCP Server (service named "dhcpserver") :-)

>
> When trying to open the DHCP Snap-in, I am having problem with open
> Address Leases and Resevations Categories.
Can you provide us more details as to what error do you get? Can you see
DHCP Server etc. in the snap-in?


> The DHCP is active and working, but from now, I cannot do anything with
> the reservations.
For now you can try using netsh.
Reference:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...f7a3cca6a.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...4a5bd3a39.mspx

> This problem occurs aslo when trying to open the dhcp Snap-In from
> different server.
Again, can you try using netsh?

>
> Has Somebody seen that before ?
> It that related to Latest Pathes installed? SP1 ?
Haven't seen any such problem so far. It would be great if you can provide
more information about your configuration settings and error messages.

>
> Please, Help
>
> Thank you
> Sion
>

I am having the same problem regardless where I access the DHCP MMC from,
whether it is on the DHCP server or from a workstation accessing the console.
I have over 40 scopes and this has just recently happened and I don't know
how to resolve it either.

Brian

"sion" wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am having Windows 2003 Server + SP1 with Active Directory on it.
> He has the DHCP service Installed on.
>
> When trying to open the DHCP Snap-in, I am having problem with open
> Address Leases and Resevations Categories.
> The DHCP is active and working, but from now, I cannot do anything with the
> reservations.
> This problem occurs aslo when trying to open the dhcp Snap-In from different
> server.
>
> Has Somebody seen that before ?
> It that related to Latest Pathes installed? SP1 ?
>
> Please, Help
>
> Thank you
> Sion
>
>
>

I fixed our problem with using the netsh command to show reserved IPs and
noticed a couple of IP that did not have full MACs addresses. From the netsh
command removed the two reservation entries and from that point on I could
access the GIU sanp-in without any problems.

Brian

"sion" wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am having Windows 2003 Server + SP1 with Active Directory on it.
> He has the DHCP service Installed on.
>
> When trying to open the DHCP Snap-in, I am having problem with open
> Address Leases and Resevations Categories.
> The DHCP is active and working, but from now, I cannot do anything with the
> reservations.
> This problem occurs aslo when trying to open the dhcp Snap-In from different
> server.
>
> Has Somebody seen that before ?
> It that related to Latest Pathes installed? SP1 ?
>
> Please, Help
>
> Thank you
> Sion
>
>
>

Well, I have the same configuration/problem. I have now 86 reservations done,
and everything works fine. After I make the 87th reservation (doesn't matter
via the MMC plugin, or the netsh dhcp server scope cmdline command), I cannot
use the MMC plugin anymore (Failure: snap-in cannot be initialized when I
click on the address leases, or the reservations).
If I then make a dump of the database using the netsh command line tool, no
reservations are shown at all:


# ================================================== ====================
# Anfang - Reservierte IP-Adressen zu Bereich 192.168.115.0, Server
192.168.115.21 hinzufÂ?gen
# ================================================== ====================



# ================================================== ====================
# Ende - Reservierte IP-Adressen zu Bereich 192.168.115.0, Server
192.168.115.21 hinzufÂ?gen
# ================================================== ====================


I can just restore the old version of the db.

Any ideas would be welcome...

Andreas
Berlin - Germany

"Tanu Mutreja [MSFT]" schrieb:

> Hi Sion,
>
> Please find the response inline...
>
> -Tanu Mutreja [MSFT]
> --
> Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. This alias is for
> newsgroup purposes only.
> "sion" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am having Windows 2003 Server + SP1 with Active Directory on it.
> > He has the DHCP service Installed on.
> Hopefully you mean DHCP Server (service named "dhcpserver") :-)
>
> >
> > When trying to open the DHCP Snap-in, I am having problem with open
> > Address Leases and Resevations Categories.
> Can you provide us more details as to what error do you get? Can you see
> DHCP Server etc. in the snap-in?
>
>
> > The DHCP is active and working, but from now, I cannot do anything with
> > the reservations.
> For now you can try using netsh.
> Reference:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...f7a3cca6a.mspx
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...4a5bd3a39.mspx
>
> > This problem occurs aslo when trying to open the dhcp Snap-In from
> > different server.
> Again, can you try using netsh?
>
> >
> > Has Somebody seen that before ?
> > It that related to Latest Pathes installed? SP1 ?
> Haven't seen any such problem so far. It would be great if you can provide
> more information about your configuration settings and error messages.
>
> >
> > Please, Help
> >
> > Thank you
> > Sion
> >
>
>
>

Hi all

I had same problem and I get Hotfix from MS.
Here is link to MS support page where you can find instructions how t
get Hofix or if you don’t want get this hotfix there is all s
workaround

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=90295

Regard
Juss