Script to enable NIC magic packets

An old script to share :-)  It will enable magic packets for NIC devices.

'==========================================================================
' NAME: EnableNICMagicPackets
' AUTHOR: Nick Moseley , https://t3chn1ck.wordpress.com
' COMMENT: Parses list of available network adapters to then disable power
'	save features.  For more info, see Microsoft KB837058
' VERSION HISTORY:
'	1.0 (05/09/2011) - Initial script
'	1.1 (05/10/2011) - Fixed logical bug within the If statement for Wan/Lan
'	2.0 (05/10/2011) - Added logging into registry for future inventory
'	3.0 (08/26/2011) - Modified the disable NIC power save to instead be
'		enabled, so as to support Wake On LAN. Windows network devices
'		should have selected (on Power Management) option ""Only allow a 
'		magic packet to wake the computer""
'==========================================================================
Option Explicit
Const ForAppending = 8

Dim oShell, oWMI, colNetworkAdapterItems, sNetworkAdapterReg
Set oShell = CreateObject (""WScript.Shell"")
Set oWMI = GetObject(""winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2"")
Set colNetworkAdapterItems = oWMI.ExecQuery (""Select * from Win32_NetworkAdapter"")
sNetworkAdapterReg = ""HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\""

' Logging
Dim oFSO, oVersionLog
Set oFSO = CreateObject (""Scripting.FileSystemObject"")
Set oVersionLog = oFSO.OpenTextFile (""C:\Windows\Temp\EnableNICMagicPackets.log"", ForAppending, True)
oVersionLog.WriteLine ""Configuration of Network Adapters""
oVersionLog.WriteLine ""  > Started ("" & Date & "" "" & Time & "")""

' Get all objects and take action on network adapters
Dim oItem, sIndexValue, sLomValue
For Each oItem In colNetworkAdapterItems
	If InStr(lcase(oItem.Name),""wan miniport"")=0 _
	  And InStr(LCase(oItem.Name),""microsoft isatap"")=0 _ 
	  And Trim(oItem.Name)<>""RAS Async Adapter"" _
	  And InStr(LCase(oItem.Name),""cisco"")=0 Then 
		If oItem.Index < 10 Then
			sIndexValue = ""000"" & oItem.Index
		Else
			sIndexValue = ""00"" & oItem.Index
		End If

		' ****************************************
		' IMPORTANT: NIC power save as needs to be enabled in order to support WOL
		' Configure/enable Power save on NIC. Value 256 (dec) converts to 100 (hex) in registry.
		oShell.RegWrite sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue & ""\PnPCapabilities"", ""256"", ""REG_DWORD""
		oVersionLog.WriteLine ""  > Enabled network adapter power save on device """""" & oItem.Name & """"""""
		oVersionLog.WriteLine ""     Set PnPCapabilities (dword) to 100 in "" & sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue
		' ****************************************

		' Configure/enable WAN/LAN switching, possible when subkey LOM exists
		sLomValue = ReadRegistryKey (sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue, ""LOM"")
		If sLomValue<>""1""  And sLomValue<>""null"" Then
			oShell.RegWrite sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue & ""\LOM"", ""1"", ""REG_SZ""
			oVersionLog.WriteLine ""  > Enabled WAN/LAN switching on device """""" & oItem.Name & """"""""
			oVersionLog.WriteLine ""     Set LOM (string) to """"1"""" in "" & sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue
		End If		
	End If 
Next 


' End
oVersionLog.WriteLine ""  > Completed ("" & Date & "" "" & Time & "")""
WScript.Quit (oVersionLog.Close)

Function ReadRegistryKey (sReadKey, sReadValue)
	On Error Resume Next
	Dim sGetValue
	sGetValue = oShell.RegRead (sReadKey & ""\"" & sReadValue)
	
	If Err.Number <> 0 Then
		ReadRegistryKey = ""null""
	Else
		ReadRegistryKey = cstr(sGetValue)
	End If 	
End Function

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