Instructions on how to use PowerShell* with recent drivers to set up a team with an Intel® Ethernet Adapter.
Teaming configuration is not available anymore in Device Manager after upgrading to or installing Windows® 10 October 2018 Update (also known as version 1809 and codenamed Redstone 5 or simply RS5).
Follow the steps below in the given order:
- From Device Manager, disable the NIC device.
- Remove all drivers and Intel® PROSet software as follows:
- Access Device Manager1.
- Expand Network Adapters.
- Right-click each entry of an Intel® Ethernet Adapter.
- Click Uninstall Device.
- Once the adapter is uninstalled, cold boot the system (power off and then back on completely).
- If the device is still disabled, enable it.
- Download and install the latest driver for your Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter just doing double click on the file. If instead of the dedicated driver you downloaded the Complete Driver Pack, please install it as follows (if you downloaded an installer, which usually is a file with the extension .exe, you can skip these steps and continue from Step 6):
- Open the Command Prompt as an Administrator.
- Access the folder that is made after having unzipped the Intel® Ethernet Adapter driver package.
- Within the Command prompt, go to APPS > PROSETDX > Winx64. In this folder, run the following command to install the driver along with PROSet and the Advanced Network Settings: DxSetup.exe BD=1 PROSET=1 ANS=1
- Reboot the computer.
- Open the Windows* PowerShell, as Administrator, and proceed as follows:
- Run the following command (see below), which should take a few seconds, and it would not show any confirmation; it would just go back to the blinking cursor:
Import-Module -Name "C:\Program Files\Intel\Wired Networking\IntelNetCmdlets\IntelNetCmdlets" - Proceed adding team(s) by running this other command: New-IntelNetTeam
- Run the following command (see below), which should take a few seconds, and it would not show any confirmation; it would just go back to the blinking cursor:
- Finally, it is just required to set any chosen name for the new team. Device Manager will confirm that the system is detecting the new team.
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1 This is an interactive tool. It will start by asking the Team Member Names. These names can be confirmed by the names of the ports in Device Manager > Network Adapters. For example, port 1 might be called Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2V2 and port 2 might be Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2V2 #2 (just an example of setting up a team using two ports within a single adapter). Alternatively, one can follow the following command line: New-IntelNetTeam -TeamMemberNames "<Adapter1>", "<Adapter2>" -TeamMode AdapterFaultTolerance -TeamName "<NewTeamName>" As for the different team types/modes (see the list below), please enter only the exact text that comes before each explanation, without spaces, bullets or dashes:
Open the Windows Device Manager. |
Teaming is no longer an option via Device Manager(see also Intel® Ethernet SW 23.5 Release Information)