How to remove the team member NIC using the power shell

In most cases, we want to make LBFO teams and to assign the existing NICs to such teams. However, we may have the quite opposite need – to remove some NICs from the existing team.

We will use the power shell and this trick can be used on any Windows server, including the Core and Hyper-V versions. Let’s begin!

Checking free disk space using the power shell

One of the crucial daily tasks for any system administrator is monitoring the disk subsystem on each server. We can perform such task in the different ways – using the local desktop/GUI tools, any remote monitoring tool like MikroTik Dude or even using the different command line tools, like diskpart.

Even better, we can utilise the power shell to find out how much free space we have on any disk, volume or partition in the system. This is convenience way to work with any actual Windows system, especially with the Windows Server Core systems.

How to check (or set) the Windows network profile using the power shell

How many times you faced the situation when your server suddenly became unavailable from the (local) network, only to discover that its NIC’s network profile was switched to public? Consequently, the Windows firewall changed the profile and from more relaxed Domain attached (or Private) it switched to the very restrictive Public.

Today’s story will guide you through the whole process of checking and switching of the active network profile of any NIC. To avoid the different GUI dialogs and windows, we will work from the power shell.

How to change the teaming mode using the power shell

In today’s story, we will see how to change the teaming mode of the LBFO team after you created one. In addition, I will make additional clarifications about the teaming mode, which I learned during the years. All of that using the command line Kung Fu and the mighty Jedi tricks.

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How to quickly find all configured DNS servers on your machine

Improperly configured DNS (name) servers can effectively render your machine useless as you will be cut from all network resources outside your local network. In case that your machine using the DHCP client (i.e., the dynamic IP settings), you’re probably good. What about servers and any other device with the static IP address?

I promise you mighty tricks using the command line Kung-Fu. Let’s begin!