I got sick of always doing this during DR Test restores, so I set it at the GPO level on all my systems.
Done and done for good. -----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 Works for 2003 Server and later Windows OS's. Sweet! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
