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Jul 11, 2023

FEATURE REQUEST - sconfig network settings - include InterfaceName / VLANID

Affected products:

- Windows Server 2022 or later

- Azure Stack HCI 22H2 or later

 

 

current situation:

sconfig is a tool to allow quick configurations. but it is lacking a bit of transparency when a machine has a couple of physical networkadapters / and VMNetworkadapters in ManagementOS mode.

 

 

feature request:

it would be absolutely spendid to include the following

- Interface Description edit: InterfaceName so it is easier to distinguish the Network Adapters name.

Imho the InterfaceDescription here is not that helpful (but shall remain) as admins have to get into get-netadapter, remember the description name and come back (if they are not firm with changing IP properties)

- secondly displaying the VLAN ID(s) might be verbose but is helpful to recognize human error 🙂

 

I know Artem Pronichkin it is not designed to be a full fleshed tool, but I hope it is possible to include these little items. 😉 Many thanks in advance.

 

proposed order of output:

 

IfIndex, VLAN ID, IPv4, InferfaceAlias / Name, InferfaceDescription

 

 

  • Check the powershell module in:
    C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\Microsoft.ServerCore.SConfig\2.0.0.0
    specifically SConfig.Network.psm1
    You can, if you want to, use that source and create your own Invoke-SConfig which includes the settings you need.
    Or use Powershell directly.
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      I rather hope for native solutions.

      If May be rüde, Networking in sconfig is really a pitty it has a bunch of issues, sometimes even fail to assign IPv4 Adresses to a fresh-netadapter.
      The missing Name is really not helpful. Id is arbitrary not even match ifindex.


      Artem it would be great to have a talk about improvements for vNext.

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