Hi Folks,
We are moving to 2012 DC's. Things are going well except for importing the DHCP config from a 2008 non R2 server. I'm following the advice from this blog, although I am not importing to a failover configuration, just from a single server to another server.
I have run the Export-DhcpServer cmdlet successfully on the 2012 server to generate the dhcpexp.xml from the remote 2008 server. However, when I try to run the Import-DhcpServer cmdlet to import the configuration:
Import-DhcpServer –ComputerName mydc.mydomain.org -Leases –File C:\export\dhcpexp.xml -BackupPath C:\dhcp\backup\ -Verbose
it fails with the following error:
backup-dhcpserver : Failed to back up the database on server mydc.mydomain.org to c:\dhcpbackup.
At line:1 char:1
+ backup-dhcpserver -computername mydc.mydomain.org -path c:\dhcpbackup
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : PermissionDenied: (mydc.mydomain.org:root/Microsoft/...P/PS_DhcpServer) [Backup-DhcpS
erver], CimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WIN32 5,Backup-DhcpServer
I next tried not specifying the -BackupPath parameter to Import-DhcpServer, but it prompted me, so it is apparently mandatory. I then tried running the Backup-DhcpServer cmdlet, but it also fails with exactly the same error message. I have tried a variety of different paths, and fiddling with permissions on the the specified folders with no success.
Can anyone lend me a hand so I can get this wrapped up? Thanks alot,
ianc