It’s the command line that returns the MAC address with the list of network protocols associated with each address for all network adapters from either local or remote computer. It’s primarily designed to help troubleshoot NetBIOS name resolution problems but it does get the MAC address from the remote system as well.

NBTSTAT is a Windows built-in diagnostic tool for NetBIOS over TCP/IP which mostly used in Windows system. Ping the remote computer to get the IP address and use ARP to retrieve the MAC address from that IP.

Let me show you 3 different ways to archive this. ipconfig /all (to get the MAC address from a local computer) It is certainly worth playing around with the properties that the above WMI query can provide in return as the information stored is vast and can lead to endless amounts of utility in your future Powershell magic.As we all know, we can use the command line IPConfig to get the MAC address of the network adapter installed on the local computer but to get the MAC address from a remote computer we need to use the different commands. A quick little one liner that taps into the vast depth of information from the WMI database via Powershell power. If you know the IP address of the network adapter: (gwmi -ComputerName DNSNAMEORIPADDRESS -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration | where ).MACAddress If you know more information about the network adapter that you want the MAC address from, we can apply filtering to the original query to bring precious to our result. Never fear though, we have the technology. However, you may find that if the device has multiple network adapters (such as teredo tunnelling for IPv6, hypervisor bridges, VPN TAPs) you are getting more noise than needed: Hopefully you will be returned a MAC Address. In the above example, we are using the gwmi cmdlet (alias o f Get-WMIObject and are interchangeable ), pointing to a remote workstation with -ComputerName switch, filtered out information requested with the -Class switch, wrapping it all in brackets so we can retrieve just the returned Powershell MACAddress property. If your remote computer is a basic configuration then we can start of something simple (gwmi -ComputerName DNSNAMEORIPADDRESS -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration).MACAddress While, as it goes in the world of system administration, many ways to skin such a cat, I am going to leverage both the power and versatility of Powershell combined with the vast information warehouse that is WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). It has cropped up from time to time that we need to retrieve information, in this example, the MAC address from remotely located workstations.

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