Powershell — changing Network Adapter's Name/Description

Question

I've been working with many VMs and doing some monitoring stuff. My current problem is that the Network Adapter/Interface name in Perfmon seems to vary across operating system. It can be anything from Microsoft Hyper-V Network Adapter to Microsoft Network Adapter #3.

I've been looking into registry editing stuff, but it doesn't seem to be easy since they are stored in ridiculously ugly GUID sets.

I've also considered using the win32_networkadapter class under wmi-objects, but I seem to be only able to get, not set, the interfacedescription property (which I'm not even sure would affect Perfmon's counter name).

Any guidance would be very much appreciated!

Answer 1

If you are using server 2012 or windows 8.1's Hyper-V there are a few commands that could do this.

Get-Vmnetworkadapter and set-vmnetworkadapter