How to find out IP address held by a Windows DHCP client yesterday

If you search for the MAC address in the plain text log files at this path:

%system32%\dhcp\DhcpSrvLog.*

...you will be able to see each time that MAC address checked in with the server within the last 7 days. Note that I tried this on a Server 2000 machine -- the path may be slightly different in a 2003 environment.

To find the MAC address, you can look it up in the DHCP reservation or run ipconfig /all on the computer with the reservation.

I'm sorry to "necro" this old question but I was having the same issue and resolved it myself. I found this question when I was searching for help and figured it might be useful to someone else if I responded.

Even though I enabled DHCP on the only NIC on the server in the wizard it needed to be re-enabled in the DHCP management console after I completed the installation of the DHCP role. I, like the OP, also used WireShark and confirmed the DHCP Discovers were being issued and seen by the server, but the DHCP Service had not been enabled on the NIC by the wizard and so did not hear the Discovers.