Windows Server 2012 - Renaming Network Interfaces from the Command Line

Every since I started using Linux as my primary desktop OS I've gotten used to configuring network settings from the command line. Linux names network interfaces according to what type of interface they are, ethernet, wireless, tunnel, etc, using the naming convention ethX, wlanX, tunX, where X is an incremental integer.

By default in Windows Server 2012 ethernet adapters have the name Ethernet, which to me is too much to type when configuring network settings on a Windows server from the command line with netsh. You can rename your interfaces using the following commands in Windows:

Get a list of current interfaces on the system:

>netsh int show interface

Admin State    State          Type             Interface Name

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Enabled        Connected      Dedicated        Ethernet

Rename the interface using the Linux naming convention:

>netsh int set interface name="Ethernet" newname=eth0