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Windows 2000 tip for mobile computers

Mobile office workers do cause a couple of problems for sys admin’s especially when you need to have there network card set for a static for the office but when they go home they need dynamic for dial up and or high speed.

Hardware profiles just do not cut it for those types of settings a cool little program that is part of win2000 can take care of those types of needs.  It is very easy to implement and easy for the end user to run as you can call it from a bat script etc.

The commands are as follows

To save the current Settings:

  • netsh -c interface dump >office.txt (you can name it anything you like)

 You can then create a dump file for every Network that you use.

To Load the Settings again:

  • netsh -f office.txt

 This way you can easily switch between different Configuration Sets.

The files are created in the root partion.  So now all you would have to do is to create a bat file for each configurations you would like e.g. (office.bat or home.bat) and put it in the root and place a short cut to it on the desk top of the user that needs it.  You would be able to have multiple configurations if more than one user is using the mobile computer.