Hyper-V Network Command Line Tool NVSPBIND Now Available Externally

Until now, Hyper-V administrators using Server Core installs of Windows Server 2008 or Microsoft Hyper-V Server were unable to enable and disable protocol bindings from the parent partition due to the lack of a graphical network control panel only available in full installs of Windows Server.

I'm pleased to announce one of our developers on the Hyper-V team, Keith Mange, recently addressed this gap with the release of his (previously Microsoft internal-only) networking tool NVSPBIND.EXE publicly on. See it here.

This command line tool gives users easier granular control over network items they want enabled for their physical NICs and helps fills a gap in troubleshooting, optimizing and hardening networking configurations on Server Core installs or Hyper-V Server.

See John Howard’s blog [here] for more details:

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2010/01/26/Hyper_2D00_V-Network-Command-Line-Tool-NVSPBIND-Now-Available-Externally.aspx