IP Address Configuration with Windows PowerShell

Once again I'm sitting in front of a newly built Windows Server 2012 machine running only Server Core in my lab at home.  This time I want to configure some IP address settings on the new machine.

The following Windows PowerShell commands get the job done:

Step #1

I need to get details about my network adapters so I run the following command.

Get-NetAdapter

Get-NetAdapter Results

Step #2

Now I can configure the adaptor I want.  I this case there is only one, so it is easy to select the correct one.  My address details are as follows:

IP: 192.168.33.10
Gateway: 192.168.33.1
Mask: 255.255.255.0

To configure this configuration I run the following command:

New-NetIPAddress -IPAddress 192.168.33.10 `
   -Default Gateway 192.168.33.1 `
   -AddressFamily IPv4 `
   -PrefixLength 24 `
   -InterfaceIndex 19

New-NetIPAddress Results

Step #3

Finally I want to configure some DNS settings. This is the command I run:

Set-DnsClientServerAddress `
       -ServerAddress 192.168.33.2 `
       -InterfaceIndex 19
                  

That's it!!! Easy.