How to get hardware MAC address on Windows

Question

I\'m playing around with retrieving the MAC address from the NIC - there are a variety of ways to get it, this article covers the most common:

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Answer 1

You can use WMI to enumerate the Win32_NetworkAdapter instances and look at the MACAddress property. The main issue with this technique is finding the appropriate adapter instance if you have multiple active adapters installed, e.g. on a laptop which also has a wireless connection.