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When to shorten your DHCP lease period

When to shorten your DHCP lease period

Most enterprises use DHCP to lease out IP addresses to computers on their networks, and DHCP lease duration can be configured on a per-scope basis using the DHCP snap-in. The default lease is 8 days, after which a computer has to renew their use of the address they’ve been leased by your DHCP server. There are certain situations however when you might want to shorten this lease period to only a few days or even hours. These situations include (a) if you frequently have computers that leave or join your network; (b) if you have computers that frequently move from one part of your network to another location; or (c) if you have only a limited number of available IP addresses to lease out.

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