Static IP addresses are a solid way to configure machines if you have few enough of them to manage them manually. But the more ability you want to have to change things on the fly, the more limiting such a configuration scheme becomes.
Unfortunately I’ve had severe problems with getting servers with DHCP leases (or even DHCP reservations) to have their names stick in DNS over time. Suddenly, after a reboot a machine would seemingly drop off the network even though it had the same IP address as earlier. Rebooting or manually re-registering its DNS record would solve the problem, but it wasn’t an acceptable solution to the underlying issue.
I found a discussion that gave a few pointers on how to get these things working in Windows, and I’ve shamelessly ripped the relevant points to present them here:
Step one: Define a user in whose context the DHCP server will run
Simply add a domain user with no special rights, and give it a properly strong password. Then open the DHCP management console, right-click the protocol you want to change (IPv4 or IPv6), and select Properties and the Advanced tab. Click Credentials and enter the relevant information for the account.
Step two: Tell DHCP to always attempt to update DNS records
In the same properties window, select the DNS tab. Ensure the following choices are ticked:
Enable DNS Dynamic Updates(…) -> Always dynamically update DNS records
Dynamically update DNS records for DHCP clients that do not request updates
Step three: Ensure DHCP server AD group membership
The DHCP server(s) should exist in the group DNSUpdateProxy. No other user or computer accounts may exist in this group.
Other tips
Make sure DHCP leases are longer than 24 hours, or bad things are likely to happen. A concrete example given is that Microsoft KMS servers have a 24 hour update cycle.