PowerShell offers a quick way to manage computers remotely through scripting and cmdlets. You can enable Windows PowerShell Remoting to manage multiple computers remotely in Windows 11 and other latest windows.

While setting up a remote connection between computers, Windows Firewall blocks the request to the remote computer, so you have to allow the firewall features related to remote management in the Windows Firewall. Go to Control Panel, System and Security, Windows Defender Firewall, and click on Allow an app or feature through Windows Defender Firewall.

In order to be able to set up PowerShell remoting in Windows 11, allow the following features in the Windows Defender Firewall.

1. Remote Desktop
2. Remote Assistance
3. Remote Event Log Management
4. Remote Event Monitor
5. Remote Scheduled Tasks Management
6. Remote Service Management
7. Remote Shut-down
8. Remote Volume Management
9. Virtual Machine Monitoring
10. Windows Firewall Remote Management
11. Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
12. Windows Remote Management
13. Windows Remote Management (Compatibility)

It looks a long way and has a lot of things to configure. The quick way is to enable it through PowerShell. Open PowerShell as administrator and then type Enable-PSRemoting. If this command does not run successfully, then you have to allow the features mentioned above manually.

Sometimes you will receive an error message. If your computer’s network adapter is set up for a public network, then you have to change the connection type to private.

For more about PowerShell remoting, click here.

Change Network Profile Type Using PowerShell

To change the network profile type from public network to private network using PowerShell, follow the steps below.

4. When you type a command in PowerShell, and it runs without any error, then it means that the configuration is successful. To make sure that the Network type changed from Public to Private, type Get-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceIndex 15command.

Now that the connection type changed from public to private try to enable PowerShell remoting.

PowerShell is a great tool to configure windows settings locally or remotely because there is no Graphical User Interface (GUI) involved, and it runs the command quickly. Another advantage of PowerShell is that you can manage multiple remote computers at the same time, and run one command on multiple computers.

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Configuring IP address in a Windows with CMD performed using netsh command line utility. The network shell (netsh) is a set of commands that help you configure any Windows operating system IP address, Network Interfaces, and Windows Firewall. The usage of the command line is for pro level Windows users. Those who are playing the network infrastructure configuration. But using the command line as normal Windows user indicate your expertise to Windows environment. If you are new to Windows command line, this article “configure IP address with command prompt in Windows 10” will help you begin using command line interface.

Configuring Windows IPv4 Networking with Netsh or Network Shell. Netsh is a command-line utility included in Microsoft’s Windows NT line of operating systems beginning with Windows 2000. It allows local or remote configuration of network devices such as the NICs.

Configure IP Address with Command Prompt in Windows 10

Before setting IP address with cmd in Windows 10, you need to know how to find your IP address on Windows 10. So before everything, you must know the network IP address configuration on your system.

Let’s learn the process of IP configuration step by step. I am going to explain it with an easy pictorial guide. If you don’t understand some part, just kindly comment us and ask your questions.

The process of Changing Windows 10 IP Address with Command Prompt: 

1. Find your IP address in Windows 10.
2. View network interfaces card.
3. Change IP address on Windows 10.
4. Change DNS IP address with the command line.
5. Reset IP address with Command Prompt.

How to Find your IP Address on Windows 10?

There are many options for finding IP address on Windows 10. The easy one is “ipconfig” command. To find your IP address on Windows 10, just type “ipconfig” in command prompt. To do this process:

1. Press Windows+R keys to open the Run.
2. Type “cmd” in the run and press enter.
3. Now type “ipconfig” to show the IP address.

The “ipconfig” command shows everything about your computer network interfaces. You might have many physical or virtual network interface card.

Here, I just have one network interface on my Windows 10 computer. The result of ipconfig command shows that the IP 169.254.29.130 with the mask of 255.255.255.0 is my current Windows IP address.

This is a class C “autoconfiguration IPv4”. When your system doesn’t find any DHCP Server or manual IP address, it obtains auto IP address. So let’s change it.

How to Change IP Address with Command Prompt?

For change IP address, open command prompt or PowerShell. Both works the same and you can run all command prompt commends on Powershell as well. Ok, run cmd or Powershell as administrator. Netsh work in both command prompt and Powershell. I’m using Windows Powershell to change IP address on Windows 10 completely. Becuase the user interface and color’s of Powershell is better than Command prompt.

1. Type “Powershell” in Windows 10 search box to run Windows Powershell.
2. You need to run Powershell as administrator. Just press Windows+Shift the press enter to run Powershell as administrator. Or right-click the Powershell and click Run as administrator.

To find the network interface with the command line, type the following command on Powershell.

Netsh interface ipv4 show interface

The result shows two network interfaces. The Loopback and the Ethernet. The Loopback is Windows builtin network loopback interface, but our pointed network interface is the ethernet.

To find your IP address in Windows 10 with netsh command, just type the following command.

netsh interface ipv4 show config

It displays all the network interface configuration. The output result is clear and better than output result of “ipconfig” command on Command prompt. So to find an exact information of the network interface, just add the index ID of the network interface at the end of the command.

netsh interface ipv4 show config 2

That’s good. Let’s configure and change Windows 10 IP address with the command line. The command is bit long but easy to understand. No need to remember, just try to understand the netsh command structure.

To change the IP address of the “Ethernet0” network interface, type the following command.

netsh interface ipv4 set address name=2 static 200.100.10.5 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=200.100.10.1

Once the command executed successfully, check the result with “netsh interface ipv4 show config 2” command. Yes, the output result shows the exact IP address has set on the “Ethernet0” network interface. Now the Windows IP address is 200.100.10.5 with the mask of 255.255.255.0 and default gateway is 200.100.10.1.

Note: You can’t change the default gateway separately with the following command. It will remove the IP address and just set the default gateway address.

netsh interface ipv4 set address name=2 gateway= (Gateway IP Address)

That’s good and enough for IP address configuration in Windows 10 with the command line. Let’s change DNS IP address from the command line.

• Related: MCSA Lab Manual Articles.

How to Change DNS IP address from Command Prompt?

DNS IP address is the unique address in the network that resolves computer name to IP address and IP address to the computer name. In the network, finding a computer with a name is easy than 32-bit IPv4 address. To set or change the DNS IP address, just simply do it with the following command.

netsh interface ipv4 set dns name=2 static 200.100.10.30

You might see some error on a simple local network, because of not having a DNS server. When you don’t have a DNS server, it’s not necessary to set DNS IP address on your computer.

Finally, recheck the result with “netsh interface ipv4 show config 2” command. The output netsh command should be displayed with DNS IP address.

Final World

Configure IP address with command prompt in Windows has tow benefits. The first benefit of working with Windows command line helps get you improve your skills in Windows environment. The second benefit is command line is faster than GUI. If you work with the command line, you will understand the power of command line.

The Windows command line interface has improved a lot in Windows 10. Now you can find some Linux commands that run in Windows 10 and works the same on Linux. Finally, hope you learn how to configure IP address with Command Prompt in Windows operating systems. If you don’t understand, please ask us about how to configure IP address with command prompt in Windows 10?

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Initial Configuration for newly installed. After installation, you need to configure the initial requirements of the server.  The essential configuration are changing host name, set IP address , update Windows, Desktop configuration, and activate the Windows Server etc. In the Windows Server 2012 R2 installation article we talk about benefits of Windows Server.

1. Desktop configuration

For Windows Server 2012 R2 Initial Configuration after the first log on to Windows Server, you will see  server manager like the below screenshot.

The server manager dashboard will open every time you restart or log off your server. You can stop it from Server Manager Properties. Just tick the Do not start Server Manager automatically at Log on.

The Windows Server 2012 R2 interfaces are different from earlier Windows Servers. I like to have desktop icons the same as older Server desktops, but by default we are not able to bring icons like My Computer, Documents and Network. To do this , you must install ‘Desktop Experience’ from Windows Server Features.

Note: It is not good idea to enable some extra features or install software in Windows Server for bringing desktop icons. I just show you the ways as a tips. 

From Server Manager dashboard, go to ‘Add Roles and Features’, select ‘Role-based or Feature-based installation’ without any changes to other roles and features, select ‘Desktop Experience’ from User Interface and Infrastructure… under Features.

Click Next and then click install. You must restart the server when the installation has complete.

After restarting Server, right click on the desktop, click Properties and check tick of all icons you need as mentioned below.

You can change desktop background, etc. But must tell you again, do not install desktop experience, because of security issue.

2. Change Server Name

The next step, you must change the host name or Server name. The Server name must be unique and easy to read for users. In order to change the Server name, Press Windows+R to open the Run and type Sysdm.cpl then press enter. This will open the System properties.

In the System Properties for Computer description type a description for you computer according to it’s roles. This will help you to determine and find your computer quickly in the network. Then click Change button, type computer name and click OK to save the changes.

When ask you to restart server click OK twice then click Restart Now. The server will restart to complete the tasks.

3. Enable Update Windows Server 2012 R2

We need to update Windows Server in order to patch the latest bugs and software updates. In the real world updating Windows is necessary and must set the Windows update to automatically.

To enable Windows update go to Control Panel and Windows update to open Windows update page or press Windows+x then press P to open Control Panel then click Windows update. Now click Turn on automatic update to enable.

Now you should see checking for updates without any errors. Let the Windows perform the process of updates completely.

Some updates need to restart the system to complete the installation. Just restart you server and check the update again.

Updating Windows  can validate Windows Server 2012 R2 evaluation for 180 days. It’s enough for a student or a testing lab environments to study about Microsoft Certification like MCSA or MCSE.

4. Change the default User name and Shutdown event Tracker

The admin user name in all Windows is Administrator, but it is better to change the default name of administrator to your favorite name. In order to change or rename it, type lusrmgr.msc in Windows Run and press enter to open local Users and Groups.

In local Users and Groups just right click the administrator name then click rename. When it has complete, once log off the and log on again with new user name.

For a test lab environment you should disable the Shutdown event tracker for group policy.

Display shutdown event tracker is a policy in Windows Server for recording the shutdown process and need a reason from user for shutting down or restarting.

Type gpedit.msc in Windows Run and press enter to open Windows Group Policy. Go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System and double click Display Shutdown Event Tracker policy.

Only check the Disabled and click OK then close the group policy window.

 5. Configure Server Networking Connections

Always in your network set the Servers IP addresses manually. Because the network Servers are very important and always must have unique address, not release different IP address each time from DHCP Server.

Type ncpa.cpl in Windows Run and press enter to open Windows Network Connections window. When the Network Connections page open, right click Ethernet0 and click Properties then select Internet Protocol Version 4 and click Properties. In the new page set IP address as mentioned on screenshot.

When everything is don, click OK and close all opened windows.

You can perform networking tasks with command line tool as well. Configure Windows IPv4 Networking with Netsh

So end of  Windows Server 2012 R2 Initial Configuration. If you are using Hyper-V or VMWare create a Check Point or Snapshot for your servers then start your other tests and practice.

Be free and ask your question about Windows Server 2012 R2.

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