Enabling NICs in Server 2008 R2 Core

I'm looking for a way to enable the disabled NIC's on my 2008 R2 hyper-v host. Netsh cmd's only show the active interfaces and using device manager remotely is read only.
Also, is there an easy to uninstall the NIC's in Core and have Windows re-discover and re-install?
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Hi
You could also try downloading Core Configurator 2.0 here http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/
It's a great little script that lets you do all the below.
Core Configuration tasks include:
Product Licensing
Networking Features
DCPromo Tool
ISCSI Settings
Server Roles and Features
User and Group Permissions
Share Creation and Deletion
Dynamic Firewall settings
Display | Screensaver Settings
Add & Remove Drivers
Proxy settings
Windows Updates (Including WSUS)
Multipath I/O
Hyper-V including virtual machine thumbnails
JoinDomain and Computer rename
Add/remove programs
Services
WinRM
Complete logging of all commands executed
Regards
Regards, ~P MCSE, MCITP, MCTS, MCP, CCNA

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Hi Xiaojin,
Thanks for posting in MSDN.
I don't think this is a bug. From your description, you want to install VC redist on some servers core for Windows Server 2008, 2012. Based on my knowledge, server core has no graphical user interface (GUI), there is no desktop. Only code written using Windows
application programming interfaces (APIs) can run on Server Core.
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This server (Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1) is used to host thin clients as well as RDP sessions. One morning the office is fine, they come back from lunch and all of the sudden they can't load certain web pages, such as adobe.com
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I was able to figure out a solution.
CAUSE:
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Insatallation von Adobe CS5 auf Windows Server 2008 R2

Hallo miteinander!
Hat jemand schon Erfahrungen gemacht mit der Installation von Adobe CS5 auf Windows Server 2008 R2/ Remote Desktop host? Auch im Hinblick auf den Einsatz von Virenscannern?
Über jeden Tipp/ link/ Hinweis/ Anregung usw. bin ich dankbar.
Vielen Dank im Voraus.

I was able to figure out a solution.
CAUSE:
It appears that the Internet isn’t fully up to date and ready to use EDns -- which is enabled on Windows Server 2008 R2 by default. The solution for this is to disable Edns. Note that this isn’t
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Create a DWORD called EnableEDNSProbes and set to 0 in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\DNS\Parameters
Restart the DNS Server service for it to take effect.

HTTP.SYS fails to load after ProLiant NIC driver update on Server 2008 R2

Hi team,
This has been driving me crazy for a week and I can't find any reference to solving the problem in Technet or any forums...
I have a ProLiant ML350G5 server that I installed Server 2008 R2 on and migrated all my domain AD, DNS, File Services, Shares and files from SBS2003 (end of life, so let's take that out of the network) - Exchange and SharePoint were not being used so Standard
server 2008 was the choice seeing that the server hardware is 4 years old...
Everything went well, migration was successful, AD was primary and active.
Then (stupidly) I decided I'd better install all the updated drivers and management software from HP. The NIC is showing as an HP NC373i which is a Broadcom BCM5708C. I updated the FLASH in that card (HP utility) and updated the driver to the latest version
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After the reboot required, I noticed that the Print Spooler (set to Automatic) didn't start, neither did IIS or Web Services...
Trying to manually start them gives the error that a dependency failed. Now Print Spooler only uses HTTP (no longer a "service" but integrated into the kernel for multiple http connections on the same port and controlled using netsh http command
prompt...) DCOM and RPC. The last 2 are running, so that leaves HTTP as the culprit.
The Event Log shows that HTTP failed to load as "the services cannot be started. Either because it is disabled or because
it has no enabled devices associated with it"
From an administrator cmd prompt, net start http gives the same failure error.
netsh http show servicestate returns "The handle is invalid" - it's not seeing http at all...
OK. If you've read this far, thank you - keep going...
Here's my thinking... Updating the NIC driver has "broken" the association with HTTP.SYS - How to I get that association back?
I uninstalled anything http related, IIS, BITS, Web, Printing Services. Reboot after reboot and still no HTTP. I deleted http.sys from \windows\system32\drivers and did sfc to get windows to give me a clean one. Reboot, still doesn't load so it's not a damaged
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I uninstalled EVERYTHING ProLiant, uninstalled the NIC, deleted the bxnd60a.sys driver so Windows would use it's own, rebooted, let it load NIC drivers, set the IP's up again, reboot - still no http.sys loading...
I've tried older versions of drivers from Broadcom, the latest version of drivers, still in the same hole...
Does anyone know how I can get HTTP.SYS to associate with the NIC? Can I do anything in the registry to achieve this? Do I have to do a System State Backup (is that the only way to preserve the AD and DNS?) scrub the server and start from scratch and then
restore the System State to get my AD and DNS back? If I do that will it bring the http.sys fault back?
I'm really at a loss - please, someone, please help...

Hi team,
This has been driving me crazy for a week and I can't find any reference to solving the problem in Technet or any forums...
I have a ProLiant ML350G5 server that I installed Server 2008 R2 on and migrated all my domain AD, DNS, File Services, Shares and files from SBS2003 (end of life, so let's take that out of the network) - Exchange and SharePoint were not being used so Standard
server 2008 was the choice seeing that the server hardware is 4 years old...
Everything went well, migration was successful, AD was primary and active.
Then (stupidly) I decided I'd better install all the updated drivers and management software from HP. The NIC is showing as an HP NC373i which is a Broadcom BCM5708C. I updated the FLASH in that card (HP utility) and updated the driver to the latest version
7.8.52.0 along with a bunch of other updates all handled by HP's Support Solutions Framework (msi).
After the reboot required, I noticed that the Print Spooler (set to Automatic) didn't start, neither did IIS or Web Services...
Trying to manually start them gives the error that a dependency failed. Now Print Spooler only uses HTTP (no longer a "service" but integrated into the kernel for multiple http connections on the same port and controlled using netsh http command prompt...)
DCOM and RPC. The last 2 are running, so that leaves HTTP as the culprit.
The Event Log shows that HTTP failed to load as "the services cannot be started. Either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices
associated with it"
From an administrator cmd prompt, net start http gives the same failure error.
netsh http show servicestate returns "The handle is invalid" - it's not seeing http at all...
OK. If you've read this far, thank you - keep going...
Here's my thinking... Updating the NIC driver has "broken" the association with HTTP.SYS - How to I get that association back?
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