Fail to change "AddressState" using powershell cmdlet "Set-NetIPAddress"

Question

PS C:\Users\webadm> Get-NetAdapter | Get-NetIPAddress IPAddress : 10.145.0.118 InterfaceIndex : 12 InterfaceAlias : Ethernet AddressFamily : IPv4 Type : Unicast PrefixLength : 24 PrefixOrigin : Manual SuffixOrigin : Manual AddressState : Deprecated ValidLifetime
: Infinite ([TimeSpan]::MaxValue) PreferredLifetime : 00:00:00 SkipAsSource : False PolicyStore : ActiveStore PS
C:\Users\webadm> Get-NetAdapter | set-NetIPAddress -IPAddress 10.145.0.118 -AddressFamily IPv4 -AddressState Preferred set-NetIPAddress : No matching MSFT_NetIPAddress objects found by CIM query for instances of the ROOT/StandardCimv2/MSFT_NetIPAddress
class on the CIM server: SELECT * FROM MSFT_NetIPAddress WHERE ((IPAddress LIKE '10.145.0.118')) AND ((InterfaceIndex = 12)) AND ((InterfaceAlias LIKE 'Ethernet')) AND ((AddressFamily = 2)) AND ((AddressState = 4)). Verify query parameters and retry. At line:1
char:18 + Get-NetAdapter | set-NetIPAddress -IPAddress 10.145.0.118 -AddressFamily IPv4 -A ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (MSFT_NetIPAddress:String) [Set-NetIPAddress],
CimJobException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CmdletizationQuery_NotFound,Set-NetIPAddress
Can anyone tell what's going wrong? thanks.

Answer 1

Hello !
To add an IP address, you have to use New-NetIPAddress cmdlet.
Example:
New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceIndex 12 -IPv4Address 10.145.0.118 -PrefixLength 24
If you have to remove the
10.145.0.118 address, you can use Remove-NetIPAddress.
Hope this helps.
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