So I have been bashing my head against the wall on this one for a while, so I figured I write a blog post about it so other's will hopefully not have to.
There is plenty of information online on how to setup option 43 for Lync/Skype for Business, however, lots of this information is outdated, and many have found that their FQDN for their Lync certificate server is too long for Cisco DHCP and gets truncated, causing it not to work. We have over a hundred remote sites where we deploy DMVPN routers, so using local DHCP on the Cisco router makes the configuration a million times better.
I battled with it for a long time, until I accidentally stumbled upon an extra variable available in newer Cisco IOS. I don't know exactly when it came into play, but there seems to be no mention of this anywhere on the internet.
The extra option is simply "ext", so instead of typing option 43 hex ......you type option ext 43 hex...and your long string option 43 is accepted, and best of all, WORKS!
To summarize everything in one page, you run DHCPutil.exe off your Lync server as such:
dhcputil.exe -sipserver servername.domain.com
You will need option 120 value in full, and option 43 value in full.
On the Cisco DCHP server, you would simply run the following to make a DHCP scope, with your own values and additional options:
ip dhcp pool DATA-POOL
network 10.192.12.0 255.255.255.192
domain-name corp.eblend.local
dns-server 10.193.8.124 8.8.8.8
default-router 10.192.12.1
option ext 43 hex YOURLONGHEX43STRINGHERE
option 120 hex YOUROPTION120STRINGHERE
lease 8
Hope this was helpful to someone.
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