This guide explains how to “hack” drivers Setup Information file and permit installation of excluded hardware from Vendor. This tutorial is targeted to install not supported Intel I219-V (2) Ethernet Adapter situated on MB from ASUS with chipset Z170 (Intel Socket 1151) on Windows Server 2016.

• Start CMD as admin and run following commands:

bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON

• Reboot server
• Download Intel® Ethernet Adapters Connections CD and unpack them
• Get your Hardware ID Ethernet adapter:
  • Start CMD and type devmgmt.msc
  • Locate your NIC adapter and right click > Properties > Details > Hardware Ids
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  • In this case our Specific hardware ID is: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_15B8&SUBSYS_86721043
• Now we will search for Global hardware ID string “VEN_8086&DEV_15B8” in which .inf file is situated
  • Run Powershell

Get-ChildItem -recurse | Select-String -pattern "VEN_8086&DEV_15B8" | group path | select name

• Here is output:

Name
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C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\21_1_cd\PRO1000\Win32\NDIS62\e1d6232.inf
C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\21_1_cd\PRO1000\Win32\NDIS63\e1d6332.inf
C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\21_1_cd\PRO1000\Win32\NDIS64\e1d6432.inf
C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\21_1_cd\PRO1000\Win32\NDIS65\e1d6532.inf
C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\21_1_cd\PRO1000\Winx64\NDIS62\e1d62x64.inf
C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\21_1_cd\PRO1000\Winx64\NDIS63\e1d63x64.inf
C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\21_1_cd\PRO1000\Winx64\NDIS64\e1d64x64.inf
C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\21_1_cd\PRO1000\Winx64\NDIS65\e1d65x64.inf

• We should now decide which version of driver to modify and after install.

Driver version	Windows Desktop OS version	Windows Server OS version
NDIS62	Windows 7	Windows Server 2008 R2
NDIS63	Windows 8	Windows Server 2012
NDIS64	Windows 8.1	Windows Server 2012 R2
NDIS65	Windows 10	Windows Server 2016

• Now open desired .inf file in notepad or any other text editor (In this case NDIS65 Winx64)
  • At the first look for string “ExcludeFromSelect”. If you will see your HW ID here, just remove the line beginning “ExcludeFromSelect = \ ” and ending with last HW ID (not applicable in this case).
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  • Then look for your Global Harware ID (In this case “VEN_8086&DEV_15B8”) – it will be located inside section [Intel.NTamd64.10.0.1]. After you find it copy all lines with this HW ID identifier
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  • Now scroll down to next section below [Intel.NTamd64.10.0] and paste previous copied lines after last PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_15B7&SUBSYS_XYZ HW ID (See next picture with red rectangle where arrow points)
  • Last important part – If we can’t find our Specifid hardware ID, fill it manually after red rectangle where arrow points – “PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_15B8&SUBSYS_86721043” (See next picture with green rectangle)
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• Save the .inf file and start with installation of drivers
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• If you followed steps correctly (or modified according to your NIC) you should see properly installed driver in devmgmt.msc:
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• Last step is to Enable Integrity checks + disable TESTSIGNING mode & Reboot

bcdedit -set loadoptions ENABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING OFF

• You can download original & modified e1d65x64.inf here: e1d65x64.inf_before_after