I had to migrate dhcp servers and the export/restore wasn’t working for me.

I read that the export/restore method only works on the same server. I’m migrating from 2008 to 2012R2. However, there is a command-line method to add DHCP reservations in Windows and there is an easy way to get a list of existing reservations:

netsh dhcp server dump > output.txt

I could only get this command to run on the local server. Running it remotely didn’t seem to get all the output, but at least it gave me the reservations and I didn’t have to retype them. (Run these commands from an elevated command prompt.)

dhcp Server \\dhcpserver.domain.com Scope 192.168.1.0 Add reservedip 192.168.1.10 0123456789ab "host.domain.com" "" "DHCP"

Kudos to this blog post for the tips.