Configure DHCP (Perl)

This code can be found in Chapter 1 of Windows Server 2003 Networking Recipes

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# From the book "Windows Server 2003 Networking Recipes"

# This code will configure the local computer
#   to receive its IP configuration from DHCP
# ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------

use Win32::OLE qw(in);

$strComputer = '.';
# --------- END CONFIGURATION ------

$objWMIService = Win32::OLE->GetObject('winmgmts:' . '{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\\\' . $strComputer . '\\root\\cimv2');

$adapters = $objWMIService->ExecQuery('Select * from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration where IPEnabled=TRUE');

foreach my $adapter (in $adapters) {
    $errEnable = $adapter->EnableDHCP();
    print "Successfully enabled DHCP on interface\n";
}

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