{"id":1914,"date":"2014-02-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/02\/27\/powertip-find-network-adapters-for-all-virtual-machines\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-network-adapters-for-all-virtual-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-network-adapters-for-all-virtual-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Network Adapters for all Virtual Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to find the network adapter names for all virtual machines.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell on my laptop running Windows&nbsp;8.1 to find the name <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; of the network adapter that is used by each of my virtual machines?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-VM<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve all of the virtual machines, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and pipe the result to the&nbsp;<b>Get-VMNetworkAdapter<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Vm | Get-VMNetworkAdapter<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note<\/b>: This command must be run with Admin rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the network adapter names for all virtual machines. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell on my laptop running Windows&nbsp;8.1 to find the name &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; of the network adapter that is used by each of my virtual machines? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-VM&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve all of the virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the network adapter names for all virtual machines. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell on my laptop running Windows&nbsp;8.1 to find the name &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; of the network adapter that is used by each of my virtual machines? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-VM&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve all of the virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}