Avoid “Diagnose and Repair” manual step in Win2k8 – get new ip programmatically

At home I have a decently sized server that pretty much covers every role that I need.  It is a hyper v server, active domain, file server and if you are a geek like me you know what else it has.  What is really annoying is that every time I turn it on it has local connectivity only and I have to “Diagnose and Repair” and then “Get new IP settings for Local Area Connection”.

Well, here is a workaround to fix this issue, simply disable and reenable the connection via command line.  I actually created a batch that is executed at startup so that I don’t have to go through the tedious step of doing it myself.  (You could solve it once and for all doing a netsh to reinstall TCP, but I didn’t try it):

Open a command line and run the following two commands

To disable:
netsh interface set interface “Local Area Connection” disabled
To enable:
netsh interface set interface “Local Area Connection” enabled

I did not find this on my own, I read it from a post from RobWill in experts-exchange, which is only for subscribers.  But here is the link to the guy just to say thanks.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_877631.html