Setting a Network address in Windows Server 8

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 PowerShell and ran

Set-ExecutionPolicy remotesigned
Enable-PSRemoting -Force

The NetTCPIP module has some commands for working with network addresses

Get-NetIPInterface -ConnectionState Connected

ifIndex ifAlias            AddressFamily  NlMtu(Bytes)  InterfaceMetric Dhcp    Store
——- ——-            ————-  ————  ————— —-     —–
21      Virtual Wireless   IPv6           1500          5               Disabled Active
12      Virtual LAN        IPv6           1500          5               Disabled Active
21      Virtual Wireless   IPv4           1500          5               Disabled Active
12      Virtual LAN        IPv4           1500          5               Disabled Active

The display is abridged to fit

The important points are the ifIndex and ifAlias.  The index scheme is totally   different to the Win32_NetworkAdapter*  scheme

To set the address

New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias "Virtual Wireless" -IPv4Address 192.168.2.10 -PrefixLength 24 -DefaultGateway 192.168.2.1

Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias "Virtual Wireless" -ServerAddresses 192.168.2.1
Set-DnsClient -InterfaceIndex 21 -ConnectionSpecificSuffix beta8.test

Notice that you have to use New-NetIPAddress. The logic seems to be that you are adding a new address to the adapter so use New*.

Set-NetIPAddress works to modify an existing address BUT you can’t change the default gateway that way!

The Set-DnsClient* cmdlets are in the DnsClient module

All of these cmdlets are based on calls to WMI classes

At the end of all that I wanted to bounce the machine any way so used

Restart-Computer