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Asked: 2013-08-27 13:50:47 +0800 CST

Get IP or MAC addresses of Windows Multipoint Server 2012 stations?

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Is it possible to programmatically retrieve the IP or MAC address of a station assigned to a Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 host, using PowerShell or any other .NET or Windows API?

Background: I'm developing a application to help set up USB-over-Ethernet zero clients in a WMS 2012 setup, bridging the PowerShell "WmsCmdlets" module (Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.MultipointServer.PowerShell.Commands.Library.WmsStation) and a third-party vendor API for configuring zero client IP address, etc. So far, I do not know any means of matching up the "stations" of the WmsCmdlets with the zero client objects in the vendor's API.

Finding out the IP or MAC associated with a WMS station would do nicely, since I have this on the zero client API side. However, I haven't found any information I could use in the PowerShell WmsCmdlets module, such as Get-WmsStation which returns the following:

Id                         : 1
Name                       : <my station name>
IsAutoLogOn                : False
IsSplit                    : False
CollabId                   : 0
RemoteConnectionServerName :
VirtualMachineName         :
VirtualMachineId           :
AutoLogOnUserName          :
AutoLogOnPassword          :
DeviceTypes                : {DT_Mouse, DT_Keyboard, DT_Audio, DT_MassStorage...}
DeviceCounts               : {2, 2, 0, 0...}
ComputerName               : <my WMS host server name>
SessionId                  : 4294967295
SessionHostServer          : <my WMS host server name>
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2 Answers

  1. Not sure how to find the IPs of other clients, but we found a major bug when you turn on the feature for each station to get a virtual IP. The second someone logs in, our DNS changes the host computer name to use that new IP, even though its IP hasn't changed. This then makes it so that RDP and remote Dashboard no longer works with the host name (the original IP of the host still works).

    We had to create a special service that looks for this every few seconds and fixes our DNS server. Kind of a pain that we had to do this, but beware. Microsoft says they're going to add a patch to fix IP issues, but I'm not sure if it'll fix this particular issue.

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  2. Best Answer

    Take a look in the registry under HKLM\software\microsoft\windows multipoint server\stations You have what looks live a list of station Ids with the corresponding MAC address of the client as part of the stationhub path

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