We have set-up a nice little admin.msc that allows access to the various resources on our various machines. So one admin console allows us to look at the events, shares, dfs, etc of all of the machines directly from our desktop. One that we have not been able to do is DHCP. The issue is that the DHCP Snap-in connects to the DHCP Server by a different TCP Port each time you open the console. This means the only way to maintain the DHCP Server is to remote desktop to the server and open the console there, put a pinhole in the firewall, or turn off the firewall.
Does anyone have a way to lock the port that the mmc snap-in for DHCP uses when communicating with the server, or which program on the server I need to make an exception for in the firewall for this to work?
