On 1/3/2012 10:59 AM, Crawford, Scott wrote:
Nice!
-----Original Message-----
From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Neat tip of the week
Ok so this is an oooold tip, but I just recently had a need for it.
Ever have a VM that when you assigned it an IP address it complained that (and I am
paraphrasing) "a hidden network device also has this IP address and if it becomes
active there will be a conflict" but when you go to device manager and have it show
hidden devices there's only one NIC listed? I see this usually when I P2V a machine, but
also moving a VM from one environment to another (just copying the VHD's and using the
copy to create a new VM) will generate this as well. In any case, here's how you can
remedy that little issue:
Add in your system environment variables the variable
DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES set it's value to: 1 reboot your machine goto
your device manager show all hidden devices
No need to reboot. Just open a new command window; the new environmental
variable should be present. Then just start up Device Manager from the
command line ...
I'm pushing to have that variable set in our GPOs, so it's always set,
just in case ...
Works for 2003 Server and later Windows OS's. Sweet!
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