On Nov 16, 6:11 pm, Jeffrey Kusters <Jeffrey
Kust...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have implemented a fully automated deployment method for our Windows
> Server 2003 based Citrix servers (using Altiris). The last step I can't quite
> figure out is how to automatically disable any unused NIC's. Most of our
> servers have two or more NICs and only one is connected. Unfortunately they
> don't always use NIC1 so I can't simply use NETSH to disable NICs 2, 3 and so
> on.
>
> Does anyone know of a script that walks through all NICs and disables the
> unused / disconnected ones??

Take a look here:
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...m/339009949731

or here

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...3fab1141c6c93e

Beginning with Vista and Server 2k8 the Win32_NetworkAdapter class has
a disable method which makes life much easier.

GL

Thanks for the links. The script in the first link works like a charm!


"Kuma" wrote:

> On Nov 16, 6:11 pm, Jeffrey Kusters <Jeffrey
> Kust...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have implemented a fully automated deployment method for our Windows
> > Server 2003 based Citrix servers (using Altiris). The last step I can't quite
> > figure out is how to automatically disable any unused NIC's. Most of our
> > servers have two or more NICs and only one is connected. Unfortunately they
> > don't always use NIC1 so I can't simply use NETSH to disable NICs 2, 3 and so
> > on.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a script that walks through all NICs and disables the
> > unused / disconnected ones??
>
> Take a look here:
> http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...m/339009949731
>
> or here
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...3fab1141c6c93e
>
> Beginning with Vista and Server 2k8 the Win32_NetworkAdapter class has
> a disable method which makes life much easier.
>
> GL
>