Windows dhcp history

This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? In this article. It might take a bit of experimentation but I think you will find that the lease still behaves the same way. Is there a way to get the DHCP server to log more than a week's worth of activity?

This would help enormously. It will be very disappointing on top of a million other Windows disappointments if it can't be done without having to screw around. The DHCP should be logging evnts on a daily basis for a week when it begins to overwrite the first one. Is this happening with your logs? If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem.

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By barth. I need to be able to see who had what IP address at any given time in the past. Currently the only logging I see are a week's worth of errors, if any. Is there a setting I'm missing? It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search.

Is there a way to find some type of log file that saves all IP address that were assigned to a desktop? Does windows log what it was anywhere? At the very least, the DHCP server should log all the addresses it hands out, if logging is enabled.

Some say it is enabled by default, but my limited testing shows otherwise. As far as I know there's no such log. There are entries for the DHCP client in the system logs, but those seem to take errors and failures only and won't include manually assigned IPs. What you could try is doing a system restore. If you're lucky, the last restore point is just hours before or possibly days and still has the old configuration.

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