Possible DHCP issue if running Premium, Installed SP1 but not ISA2004, still at ISA2000

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Hello,

This is just to warn people of a problem I had that appears to show up in
the following scenario:

1. SBS Premium
2. Upgrade to SP1
3. Did not upgrade ISA to 2004

I didn't notice it at first because both PCs I have had an active lease and
were fine. I tried building a laptop for beta testing and it wouldn't get an
IP, via wired or wireless connections. I then released the IP on my desktop,
it wouldn't renew. DHCP stats showed no requests getting to DHCP server. I
restarted DCHP Server service, deactivated and reactivated the Scope, still
nothing. I rebooted the server multiple times. Because I suspected ISA, I
even stopped the ISA service (and web proxy as well).

When I was finally able to remove ISA2000 in safe mode via RMISA, and reboot
the server(see my other thread on that fiasco), my laptop wireless
connection acquired an IP on it's own. I was then able to switch my desktop
back to DHCP and it acquired an IP as well.

Not sure of much else, but it appears that something about ISA was causing
my issue.

If you have a machine that isn't mission critical, and you've upgraded to
SP1 without doing the ISA upgrade, and you run ISA on your machine (I have 1
nic going right now), you may want to try a release/renew and see if you are
able to get an IP.

Again, YMMV, but this was my experience. Just wanted to save some
head-banging.

Dave Hampson


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