Has anyone noticed that during Windows 7 setup mode DHCP does not renew the same way as when the OS setup has completed?
Here is what I have seen. In some locations with lots of people in and out of the building the network team has set the DHCP leases to something fairly short (30 min - 2 hours). In these locations if the image ever takes more than that lease time before a reboot the machine drops it's IP and the image will fail. The machine does seem to renew at each reboot. Once the image is complete the Windows 7 machines renew at the ½ life of the lease like normal. Pressing F8 and running an ipconfig /renew will renew the IP properly, but Windows just doesn't do it on its own. I have been trying to get all of the subnets changed to at least a minimum of 4 hours, but we keep running into this one. I was just curious if anyone else had seen this? Is it by design? Is there a way to change this behavior? Thanks, Wade Wade Atkinson, MCSE, Lead IT Engineer IS Workplace Technology _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CenturyLink | 600 New Century | New Century KS 66031 office 913 738 5766 | cell 913 744 5455
