{"id":1633,"date":"2014-04-09T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/04\/09\/powertip-use-powershell-to-rename-network-adapter\/"},"modified":"2014-04-09T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-rename-network-adapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-rename-network-adapter\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Rename Network Adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to rename network adapters in Windows Server&nbsp;2012&nbsp;R2.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;Is there a way to use Windows PowerShell in Windows Server&nbsp;2012&nbsp;R2 to rename a network adapter?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Rename-NetAdapter<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; For example, to rename the network adapter called&nbsp;<b>&ldquo;Ethernet&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/b>to&nbsp;<b>&ldquo;ManagementPort&rdquo;<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">Rename-NetAdapter &ldquo;Ethernet&rdquo; &ndash;NewName &ldquo;ManagementPort&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to rename network adapters in Windows Server&nbsp;2012&nbsp;R2. &nbsp;Is there a way to use Windows PowerShell in Windows Server&nbsp;2012&nbsp;R2 to rename a network adapter? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Rename-NetAdapter&nbsp;cmdlet. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; For example, to rename the network adapter called&nbsp;&ldquo;Ethernet&rdquo;&nbsp;to&nbsp;&ldquo;ManagementPort&rdquo;: Rename-NetAdapter &ldquo;Ethernet&rdquo; &ndash;NewName &ldquo;ManagementPort&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to rename network adapters in Windows Server&nbsp;2012&nbsp;R2. &nbsp;Is there a way to use Windows PowerShell in Windows Server&nbsp;2012&nbsp;R2 to rename a network adapter? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Rename-NetAdapter&nbsp;cmdlet. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; For example, to rename the network adapter called&nbsp;&ldquo;Ethernet&rdquo;&nbsp;to&nbsp;&ldquo;ManagementPort&rdquo;: Rename-NetAdapter &ldquo;Ethernet&rdquo; &ndash;NewName &ldquo;ManagementPort&rdquo;<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}