Microsoft Surface Tablet Mac Address
I work in a hotdesk type of environment where at the end of the day, everyone packs their desk and the next day they sit somewhere else.
There is a static dock, screen and keyboard on every desk, and all that changes is the surface on the dock.
To cut a long story short, i am experiencing an issue with all my Surface Pro 3's running W8.1 where i am getting duplicate MAC addresses on multiple devices (Ethernet MAC). Took a while to figure out how this was happening but this is how we managed to replicate the issue.
A user will shut down their surface at the end of the day while still docked (we will call this dock A), they will not remove it from the dock A until it has completely shut down. They will go home and come back the next day and sit in a different location (dock B) and dock their surface and then start it up.
When windows starts, and i do an 'ipconfig /all' dock B ethernet adapter MAC address will be the same as dock A. Now this isnt so much of a problem (IP wise) until someone comes in and sits at dock A, then we have duplicate MAC addresses and different IP's.
The only way i have found to fix this is to start the surface undocked, or re-dock then it will lose its ethernet adapter and when docking again, it will aquire the correct MAC address.
I have tried to search for similar cases but i dont think there are many companies out there running W8.1 on surfaces doing activity based working..
Anyway i would welcome any suggestions or ideas you may have.
Change Mac Address Surface Pro
Nov 12, 2019 Microsoft Surface Pro 7 with optional type cover. The Microsoft Surface Pro 7 is a tablet computer that rivals the iPad for portability and ease of use. Another potential solution to avoid conflict when adapters are shared is to use the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to perform deployment to Surface devices. MDT does not use the MAC address to identify individual computers and thus is not subject to this limitation.
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