Dhcp Ip Lease Ceases To Operate If I Use Ad W/dns

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I have Windows Server 2008 x86 installed. I installed Active Directory with DNS, created a new forest and see AD and DNS are working sympatico after a few failures (always happens after it's first installed, not sure why). I installed DHCP Server and see client machines are able to receive an IP lease. However, once I install Routing Acesses so the client machines can access the Internet, DHCP no longer provides IP leases. There are no DHCP errors logged to ascertain the cause.

If I install DNS without AD, install DHCP and Routing Access, all clients work flawlessly, even with DHCP Reservations created. I want to use Active Directory though and it should work, yet it just does not. Even if I install the insane amount of Windows Updates for this x86 version of Server 2008 to ensure known issues are patched, for the life of me, I cannot get DHCP to work properly if I install AD.

Can anyone shed some light on this issue? It's driving me a bit nutty. :)
 
If I'm not wrong... you should authorize it first...

Code: 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753329(WS.10).aspx
 
ICTCity said:
If I'm not wrong... you should authorize it first...

Code: 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753329(WS.10).aspx
Click to expand...

Thank you for the reply. It had already been authorized. ;) That's what makes it more frustrating. What seems sensible or what I have found as a possible solution has already been done.

Update: You know, I never look a gift in the mouth. I installed active directory again on a new installation since I started having these issues and authorized DHCP again. It's working now, so I would have to think there was something wrong with the previous 2K8 installation, or something relating to active directory. It's somewhat maddening knowing I had already authorized DHCP before and it just wouldn't work.

Thank you so much for the input. At the very least it gave me the will to try it again and it paid off.
 
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