Microsoft: Manipulating Windows Network Adapter using PowerShell

This article is about configuring the network adapter using PowerShell cmdlet:

To get a list of the names of physical network adapter, the following command was used:

Get-NetAdapter -Physical

To get the IP address assigned to the network adapter:

Get-NetIPAddress | Format-Table

To enable/disable the network adapter:

Enable-NetAdapter [-Name] “NetAdapterName”

Disable-NetAdapter [-Name] “NetAdapterName”

Restart-NetAdapter [-Name] “NetAdapterName”

To set dynamic IP address assignment for network adapter:

Set-NetIPAddress -AddressFamily IPv4 -PrefixOrigin Dhcp

To set static IP address for network adapter:

New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceIndex [NetAdapterIndex] -IPAddress 192.168.0.1 -PrefixLength 24 -DefaultGateway 192.168.0.5

Set-NetIPAddress -InterfaceIndex [index] -IPAddress 10.0.0.9 -PrefixLength 24

To set DNS IP address for network adapter:

Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceIndex 12 -ServerAddresses(“10.0.0.1”,“10.0.0.2”)

Or

Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceIndex 12 -ResetServerAddresses

For more commands and help on this topic, you can visit the Microsoft documentation site here.