The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) specification defined in RFC 2849 describes a well-defined file-based format for representing directory entries. The format is intended to be both human and machine parseable, which adds to its usefulness. LDIF is the de facto standard for importing and exporting a large number of objects.

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The netsh tool makes it easy to import and export DHCP Server configuration information. In the CLI solution, I showed how to export all scope information, but you can specify a subset if you want only certain ones. The following command exports only the scopes pertaining to 10.1.2.0 and 10.1.3.0:

>  netsh dhcp server export C:\dhcp.txt 10.1.2.0 10.1.3.0

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