PowerShell Get-NetIPConfiguration

PowerShell 3.0’s Best Network Cmdlet

Get-NetIPConfiguration reminds me of IPConfig, and it shows the basic TCP/IP information much more easily than using PowerShell Gwmi classes.

Tutorial for PowerShell’s Get-NetIPConfiguration

• Basic Get-NetIPConfiguration Command
• More Information with Get-NetIPConfiguration
• Tuning the Output of Get-NetIPConfiguration
• Get-NetIPConfiguration – Alias GIP
• Creating a Function Get-IPConfig

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Basic Get-NetIPConfiguration Command

If you have ever grappled with Microsoft’s WMI network classes in PowerShell, then you may appreciate that Get-NetIPConfiguration is one of the new CIM generation of PowerShell functions.

Result:

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Gettin More Information with Get-NetIPConfiguration

Researching with Get-Help reveals two useful parameters, -Detailed and -All.  In PowerShell v 3.0 you can also work with these parameters more easily if you preface the function with Show-Command.  These switches make Get-NetIPConfiguration look even more like IPConfig on steroids.

Note 1: You could substitute Show-Command for Get-Help

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Tuning the Output of Get-NetIPConfiguration

Appending | gm (Get-Member) lists all the properties (and methods) for a cmdlet or PowerShell function.  As a result you can modify the output to suit conditions on your computer, here is an example listing the IP addresses of all the network interfaces in a table.

Note 2: This example uses the -all parameter, thus you see the results for both real and virtual NICs.

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Get-NetIPConfiguration – Alias GIP

I was idly running Get-Alias, when I happened upon ‘GIP’.  The key to this discovery was deploying the -Definition parameter:
Get-Alias -Definition Get-NetIPConfiguration

Alternatively, you can examine the Alias section as revealed by Get-Help with any Cmdlet or Function.

Create Your Own Function Get-IPConfig

Another strategy is to create your own PowerShell function based on the built-in Microsoft IPConfig command.  What I did was create -IP, which display just the dotty dot numbers, for example: 192.168.1.20.

See more about creating the Get-IPConfig function »

Summary of PowerShell Get-NetIPConfiguration

PowerShell 3.0 brings a host of new functions disguised as cmdlets; NetIPConfiguration provides a really useful way of displaying information about your computer’s IP Addresses.

See more Microsoft PowerShell v 3.0 examples

• PowerShell 3.0  • What’s New in PowerShell 3.0  • PowerShell v 3.0 ISE  • PowerShell Home

• Get-NetAdapter  • Disable-NetAdapter  • Enable-NetAdapter  • Get-NetIPConfiguration

• PowerShell Network Cmdlets  • PowerShell 3.0 Logon Script  • PowerShell Show-Command