How to Create and Delete DHCP Reservations in Windows Server

In this article, we shall learn how to create and delete a DHCP reservation in Windows Server. Sometimes you may need to reserve an IP address for a workstation or a device from your DHCP pool. Administrators can easily configure a DHCP reservation in their DHCP server when they need to reserve a permanent IP address. Please see Docker Setup: Monitoring Synology with Prometheus and Grafana, and how to Kill Containers and remove unused images from Docker Correctly.

A DHCP reservation is a permanent IP address assignment. It is a specific IP address within a DHCP scope that is permanently reserved for leased use to a specific DHCP client.

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Create and delete a DHCP reservation in Windows

Reservations are used for DHCP-enabled devices like print and file servers or other application servers that always have a fixed IP address on the network. A reservation consists of the following information.

	Elements	Description
	Reservation name	Name that the administrator assigns
	IP Address	The IP address from the scope for the client
	MAC Address	Client’s Media Access Control(MAC) address
	Supported	DHCP reservation, Boot Protocol (BOOTP), or both
	Description	The description that the administrator assigns

For more information on DHCP, see the following links below

For more information on Automatic IP Assignment: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
How to install Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol on Windows Server 2019
On how to configure DHCP: Post-deployment of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
How to configure DHCP Server option 60, 66 and 67 for Windows Deployment Services
Information on BOOTP Vendor Extensions and DHCP Options.
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To configure a DHCP Reservation

Please follow the steps below to perform the DHCP reservation.

The steps in configuring DHCP reservation in Windows Server 2019 is similar to other versions of Windows.

If you’ve heard of static IP addresses before, this is very similar. Since you manage it all from the DHCP Server.

Step 1

Open the DHCP Manger console from the Server Manager

This will open the DHCP console. In the console tree,

Step 2:

Click reservations

Right-Click on the reservation and click on New Reservation as shown below

Step 4

In the new reservation dialog box, provide the values for the following fields:

Reservation name.
IP address.
MAC address (without hyphens).
Description.

Under supported types, select one of the following options: Both. When you have completed the details, in the new reservations dialog box. Click on add and then on close.

To add another Reservation, follow the same procedure as shown above. You can add a lot of reservations as you want.

Now we have our serverations created as shown below

Screenshot of a DHCP management console showing the scope and reservations for printers, including 'My Printer Server' and 'Printer A' with related IP addresses.

Verifying the DHCP Reservation

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On the Print Server, release the server IP address at the command prompt with the ipconfig/release command.

ipconfig/release

On the DHCP Server, from the DHCP console under address leases, verify that the reservation displays as inactive.

Screenshot of a DHCP management interface displaying 'Client IP Address', 'Name', and 'Lease Expiration' sections, with highlighted reservations for printers.

Furthermore, On the Print Server, renew the client’s IP address at the command prompt with the ipconfig/renew command.

ipconfig/renew

On the DHCP Server, in the DHCP console under address leases, verify that the reservation displays as active.

Delete a Reservation

To delete a DHCP reservation, simply right-click on your desired reservation and hit the delete button

DHCP management console showing reservations and options for IP addresses, with the delete option highlighted.

In the DHCP confirmation Windows, click on Yes

Confirmation dialog box for DHCP showing a warning message about deleting a reservation for an IP address, with 'Yes' and 'No' buttons.

That is all that is required to create and delete a DHCP reservation.

I hope you found this blog post on how to create and delete a DHCP reservation in Windows Server helpful. Please let me know in the comment session if you have any questions.