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Wednesday 13 October 2010

Server 2008 - remove old NICs so you can rename new NICs properly

Start a command prompt as administrator

Execute the following:

SET DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1

START DEVMGMT.MSC

When device manager opens choose 'show hidden devices' from the 'view' menu.

You can then right click and uninstall any old NICs (shown as greyed out)

This is always a problem for us when cloning VMWare machines!

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