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Hyper-V Network Command Line Tool NVSPBIND Now Available Externally

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Virtualization-Team
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Mar 21, 2019
First published on TECHNET on Jan 25, 2010


Hello all,







I’m Paul Despe and I work as a program manager on the Microsoft Hyper-V team.





Until now, Hyper-V administrators using Server Core installs of Windows Server 2008 or Microsoft Hyper-V Server were unable to enable and disable protocol bindings from the parent partition due to the lack of a graphical network control panel only available in full installs of Windows Server.





I'm pleased to announce one of our developers on the Hyper-V team, Keith Mange, recently addressed this gap with the release of his (previously Microsoft internal-only) networking tool NVSPBIND.EXE publicly on. See it here .



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This command line tool gives users easier granular control over network items they want enabled for their physical NICs and helps fills a gap in troubleshooting, optimizing and hardening networking configurations on Server Core installs or Hyper-V Server.





See John Howard’s blog [ here ] for more details:





Paul Despe
Updated Mar 21, 2019
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  • D370000's avatar
    D370000
    Copper Contributor

    'nvspbind' is an essential tool.

    Why Microsoft decided to "deprecate" it as so many other really useful tools and features?

    Please return access both to 32 and 64-bit versions.

     

  • timstamp's avatar
    timstamp
    Copper Contributor

    This article is out of date, the links are all broken, including the blog article.

    The app 'nvspbind' is no longer available, and there seems to be no replacement, leaving no feasible way to accomplish the tasks that tool was doing.