Some Windows 10 versions Network Setup Service will keep the network adapter name when a user updates the network driver.

项目
12/22/2017

Symptom:

When a user installs the network adapter driver, the network adapter will be assigned a name based on the device driver INF file. For example, following INF fragment will install the network adapter with a name: “Virtual Ethernet Adapter (NDIS 6.30) Version - 1”

[Standard.NTamd64]……%NetVMini.DeviceDesc% = NetVMini.ndi, {b85b7c50-6a01-11d2-b841-00c04fad5171}\NetVMini630 ; Toaster Bus enumerated [Strings]……NetVMini.DeviceDesc = "Virtual Ethernet Adapter (NDIS 6.30) Version - 1"……

This network adapter name will be displayed in the Device Manager and will be remembered by the system in the private data.

When a user uses the Device Manager to update the network adapter driver, for example, we have a new version driver:

In this scenario, the system will keep on using the original network adapter name (Virtual Ethernet Adapter (NDIS 6.30) Version - 1) instead of using the definition in the new version INF file.

Cause:

There is a new component -- Network Setup Service which will try to keep the original network adapter name during the driver update progress.

Resolution or Workaround:

This issue will not happen if the previous version network adapter driver is “uninstalled” before install the new version driver.

KB available for Windows 10 1607 version:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4022715

Addressed an issue where the network interface description name of a network adapter is not updated in Hyper-V after a device driver update. Management of a NIC Team or vSwitch within Hyper-V Administrator or System Center Virtual Machine Manager may be affected.

Windows 10 1703 version had fixed this issue.

通过

Some Windows 10 versions Network Setup Service will keep the network adapter name when a user updates the network driver.

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