DHCP Service won't start .

[Homeboy]

I keep getting this message in the event viewer
The description for Event ID ( 7023 ) in Source ( Service Control Manager ) could not be found. It contains the following insertion string(s): Microsoft DHCP Server%%10049

Along with eventID 1007 & 1008 .... I have seen some articles on technet that this maybe caused by leading zero's in an IP address octet ie. 192.168.007.012

I have searched the registry for the IP Address that I used but cannot find it does anyone know how to resolve this without having to reload the server ????

Thanks,
Dave .

 

[peterve]

did you try to reload the latest SP ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------
I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Peter Van Eeckhoutte
peter.ve@pandora.be
*:->* Did this post help? Click below to let me know !

 

[Homeboy]

Yeah I did reload the service pack !! I think it maybe something to do with my root directory being winnt 4.0 rather than winnt so I might try the technet article to change this over !

 

[Guest_imported]

The default directory <WinNT_root>\System32\Dhcp was not present before Microsoft DHCP Server service was installed. The Microsoft DHCP Server service installation process will not check for this directory, nor create it if it is
missing.

If this was/is the prob follow the below steps
1. Uninstall the Microsoft DHCP Server service
2. Manually create the <WinNT_root>\System32\Dhcp folder.
3. Reinstall Microsoft DHCP Server service
4. Restart Windows NT Server.
5. reinstall sp4,6 reboot

Later
bobo

 

[mdnationwide]

Looking through technet you could look at the following articles...

Event 1003, 1008, 1017, 7023 After DHCP Service Installation [Q173040]

DHCP Server Errors 1007, 1008, 7023 & DNS Server Errors 407, 408 [Q200462]

DHCP Server Fails to Start with Event 1007, 1008 and SCM 7023 [Q194028]

DHCP and WINS Do Not Start with Command AntiVirus Version 4.54. [Q245194]

WINS, DHCP Do Not Start After Upgrade to Command AntiVirus 4.54. [Q245168]