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We have been depolying w2012r2 for ages and the network connection identifier has always been Ethernet. And this is an identifier set in my unattend.xml file so that I can get HP Server Automation to deploy VMs.
However I am now getting w2012r2 machines being deployed with the network connection identifier coming up as Ethernet0 which is screwing up my automated installs.
I have changed this in my xml file but it now fails the Specialize pass.
Whenever I add in this component, < component name="Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Client" I get the failure.
I have removed the component and everything works fine, but when I re-add it even with modifications I get the following error.
Anyone got any ideas why I am suddenly getting Ethernet0 instead of Ethernet?
Last edited by Wurzel; 29 February 2016 at 04:18 PM.
Can you post up your unattend file (sanitise it first).
Ensure the [Identifier/] element is the first entry after the [Interface] element for both TCPIP and DNS-Client. Replace the square brackets with less than greater than symbols - I'm sure you know what I mean.
Why don't you use Local Area Network to identify the NICs, allowing multiple NICs to be enumerated as 2, 3, 4 etc?
More to the point, why have you posted this here in Other Marques, when it should obviously be in Scoobynet General?
Funilly enough I did post it in computer related and once I submitted it half the message was missing and it was in the Scoobynet General.
Then I edited it to readd the missing part and another bit vanished.
The reason I did not use Local Area Network was when I first installed Win2012R2 this was set to "Ethernet" and the xml config fell over when I had "Local Area Network" I used the Windows Kit thing to get the components in the right order and this has passed verification.
I have this script running on another HP SA Server and it works fine so I have no idea why "Ethernet" has switched to "Ethernet0"
Great all the XML code has been stripped out, so that was a waste of time writing that wasn't it.
29 February 2016 | 02:59 PM
Windows 2012 R2 network Connection Identifier
