{"id":183,"date":"2012-05-04T21:31:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T21:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2019-02-07T04:40:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T04:40:23","slug":"error-while-importing-option-6-while-moving-dhcp-database-from-windows-server-2008-to-another-windows-server-20082003-or-2008-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Error while importing option &ldquo;6.&rdquo; while moving DHCP database from Windows Server 2008 to another Windows Server 2008\/2003 or 2008 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/mykbit.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/error-while-importing-option-6-while.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mykbit.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/error-while-importing-option-6-while.html\">http:\/\/mykbit.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/error-while-importing-option-6-while.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To move DHCP from one server (2003\/2008) to another you can use the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/networking\/archive\/2008\/06\/27\/steps-to-move-a-dhcp-database-from-a-windows-server-2003-or-2008-to-another-windows-server-2008-machine.aspx\">following steps<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>At the command prompt type <strong>netsh dhcp server export C:\\dhcpdata.txt all<\/strong> , and then press <strong>ENTER<\/strong>. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>You must have local administrator permissions to export\/import the data.<\/p>\n<p>Configure the DHCP server service on the server that is running Windows Server 2008<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Add DHCP Server Role <\/li>\n<li>Make sure to Authorize DHCP while installing the Role. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Import the DHCP database <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Copy the exported DHCP database file to the local hard disk of the Windows Server 2008-based computer. <\/li>\n<li>At the command prompt, type <strong>netsh dhcp server import <i>c:\\dhcpdata.txt <\/i>all <\/strong>and press <strong>ENTER<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If might receive the following error <\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cError while importing option \u201c6.\u201d \u201cThis option conflicts with the existing option \u201c\u201d An Internal Error Occurred.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p>It is because by default when you install DHCP Server Role, it puts the following entries in <strong>Server Options<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>006 DNS Server    <br \/>015 DNS Domain Name<\/p>\n<p><strong>To fix the Error \u2013&gt; <\/strong>Just delete the above two entries from Server options and Run the Import DHCP database command again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/mykbit.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/error-while-importing-option-6-while.html To move DHCP from one server (2003\/2008) to another you can use the following steps At the command prompt type netsh dhcp server export C:\\dhcpdata.txt all , and then press ENTER. Note: You must have local administrator permissions to export\/import the data. Configure the DHCP server service on the server that is running Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}