More Fun with Windows Server Core 2012 R2

SCONFIG Follow-Up

In my earlier post on using SCONFIG, I mentioned needing to be able to do a few other things from the command line before I could stay immersed in Windows Server Core 2012 R2.  Namely, adding disks and formatting them.  I recently covered that here and here.  There's a couple of other things: Firewall Rules (viewing and setting), mapping network drives (turns out the old "net use" is by far the easiest way for that) and turning off IPv6.

Firewall rules definitely rates its own post.  Mapping drives is trivial as long as they allow you to use the old "net use"command.  Slightly less trivial with Powershell.  Honestly, I would only use the PS way if i was programming something (or it MS took away "net use"command in a future release).  So that leaves IPv6 for this post.  Here's how to disable that: First you have to find the name (alias) of your Ethernet card.  After that, you can display it's settings.

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-NetAdapter

Name                      InterfaceDescription                    ifIndex Status       MacAddress             LinkSpeed
----                      --------------------                    ------- ------       ----------             ---------
Ethernet 5                Citrix PV Network Adapter #2                 20 Up           BE-EF-B0-1D-FA-CE         1 Gbps
Ethernet 8                Citrix PV Network Adapter #0                 23 Up           FE-ED-BA-5E-BA-11         1 Gbps


PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-NetAdapterBinding -InterfaceAlias "Ethernet 8" | Select-Object Name,DisplayName,ComponentID

Name                                    DisplayName                             ComponentID
----                                    -----------                             -----------
Ethernet 8                              Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder ms_rspndr
Ethernet 8                              Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper... ms_lltdio
Ethernet 8                              Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexo... ms_implat
Ethernet 8                              Client for Microsoft Networks           ms_msclient
Ethernet 8                              QoS Packet Scheduler                    ms_pacer
Ethernet 8                              File and Printer Sharing for Microso... ms_server
Ethernet 8                              Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)  ms_tcpip6
Ethernet 8                              Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)  ms_tcpip 

Now, just disable IPv6...

PS C:\Windows\system32> Disable-NetAdapterBinding -InterfaceAlias "Ethernet 8" -ComponentID ms_tcpip6

And -  TA-DAHH!  That's it.