How to manually issue dhcp on a network with multiple areas, bypassing automation?

Question

DHCP

Subject. Is WS, DHCP is lifted. It has multiple 22 length areas configured to throw different types of devices into different areas.

The question arose: send all connections to one area, and then do the subsequent spreading over the areas using redundancy.

But, if you do not set any restrictions, devices receive addresses completely at random from any area and do not always fly into the right one, even if redundancy is enabled there - the reserve remains inactive, and the device receives a dynamic address in another area.

If, in order to avoid automatic entry of devices, put a range of ignored addresses on the entire area, then even devices with static reservation cannot fly into it: the area is displayed as overcrowded.

If you make a policy by poppy address (*) and direct this mask to one area, then everything will fly into it, ignoring everything around.

CHADNT?
The deadlock is so unexpected that the possibility of abandoning DHCP as a service on a windows server and moving to a router-based one is already being considered, where it is much easier to configure.

Answer 1

By area, do you mean Scope?
Consider consolidating all your dhcp scopes into a superscope.

Answer 2

I ran into something similar and this is what I found. Works only on w2k12 server and above. Haven't tried it myself yet.
And on the router, in fact, everything is configured many times easier - but try to explain this to the vindoadmins!