Category Archives: Networking

Using Invoke-WmiMethod to set the DNS servers

Posted on Sunday 20 May 2012 by

In the last post I showed that there was an issue with the way the SetDNSServerSearchOrder of the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class worked This would work $nic = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter “Index=7″$nic.SetDNSServerSearchOrder(“10.10.54.201″) but using Invoke-WmiMethod failed After discussions with Bartek Bielawski … Continue reading →

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TCP/IP Alternative Configurations: pt IV reset to static address

Posted on Sunday 20 May 2012 by

At some stage we may need to reset our NIC back to having a static address $index = 7 $nic = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration ` -Filter “Index=$index” $ipaddress = @(“10.10.54.202″) $subnet = @(“255.255.255.0″) Invoke-WmiMethod -InputObject $nic -Name EnableStatic -ArgumentList $ipaddress, … Continue reading →

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TCP/IP Alternative Configurations: pt III set the alternative configuration

Posted on Friday 18 May 2012 by

  We have seen how to set the NIC to use DHCP to get its address. This post shows how to set the alternative configuration on the NIC. If you just  want APIPA then do nothing – other wise use … Continue reading →

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TCP/IP Alternative Configuration: pt II Set DHCP

Posted on Wednesday 16 May 2012 by

The next step on our journey to an alternative configuration is setting the NIC to use DHCP I will keep cheating for now and specify the NIC – on my machine I now it is the NIC whose Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration has … Continue reading →

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TCP/IP Alternative Configuration: pt I The configuration

Posted on Sunday 13 May 2012 by

A question on the forum got me wondering about setting the Alternative Configuration on a TCP/IP properties of a network adapter. NICs are normally configured to either DHCP or a static address. If you use DHCP another tab “Alternative Configuration” … Continue reading →

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Setting a Network address in Windows Server 8

Posted on Sunday 11 March 2012 by

  Windows Server 8 & Windows 8 bring a host of new functionality to us. I wanted to try out some of it so created a new VM and installed the OS – went for full GUI for now Opened … Continue reading →

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Changing IP Connection Metric

Posted on Sunday 1 January 2012 by

A question on the forums asked how the connection metrics could be set on a Windows system. We need to start by identifying the network adapters using this function function test-ipmetric { Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter -Filter “AdapterType = ‘Ethernet 802.3′” … Continue reading →

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Hosts file – add an IPv6 address

Posted on Tuesday 8 November 2011 by

This builds on adding an IPv4 address – http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/10/24/hosts-file-add-a-record.aspx function add-IPv6hostfilecontent { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$IPAddress, [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$computer ) $file = Join-Path -Path $($env:windir) -ChildPath “system32\drivers\etc\hosts” if (-not (Test-Path -Path $file)){ Throw “Hosts file not found” } $data = … Continue reading →

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IPv6 Link local addresses and device identifier

Posted on Sunday 6 November 2011 by

If I run ipconfig on my system the partial results are this Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:    Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : tiscali.co.uk    Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::6d95:b824:6a72:a0a9%11    IPv4 Address. . … Continue reading →

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Working with IPv6

Posted on Saturday 5 November 2011 by

A comment was left on one of the articles in my recent series on working with the hosts file asking about using IPv6.  I’ve not used it really as I’ve never had any reason but it seems a good idea … Continue reading →

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