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venkateshvcp5
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‎07-02-2012 02:18 AM

my local adapter connection name changes evrytime..

HI,

When i provision a VM from a template, my local adapter name, called local area connection name is changing.

like if i proviison now it says Local Area Connection 17, again later 18..

Why it is changing? i dont want that to chnage.

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venkateshvcp5
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‎07-02-2012 02:46 AM

can someone plz help here

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rickardnobel
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‎07-02-2012 02:53 AM

venkatesh wrote:

can someone plz help here

Sometimes answers could take more than 30 minutes to arrive.

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Rubeck
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‎07-02-2012 04:10 AM

Hi...

Have you looked at this KB?

Deploying Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 templates with vmxnet3 renames the NIC as #2

/Rubeck

venkateshvcp5
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‎07-02-2012 04:22 AM

HI Rubek,

Excellent, thanks for the info, it nails down my problem.

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