NIC Teaming / Load Balancing and Failover (LBFO) / Microsoft-Windows-NetworkTeamInstaller Optional Feature?

[bseklecki_ge]

All:

It seems that Microsoft has announced the end of NIC Teaming support starting in Windows 11. (*) Intel PROSet utility is not supported in Windows 11 (v29/v30 driver bundle and onward); and their PowerShell CMDLETs do not function on Windows 11.

I gentlemen posted a forum [ https://mcsaguru.com/enable-nic-teaming-windows-11-powershell-tutorial/ ] about using the Microsoft Windows Server native PowerShell cmdlets to work-around (New-LBFOTeam), however, supposedly for this to work, FOD/WOF (Windows optional Feature / Feature on Demand) must be installed/activated: Microsoft-Windows-NetworkTeamInstaller

I cannot find any record of such a feature/pack exists anywhere in the Microsoft ecosystem; certainly not anywhere in NTLite.

Anyone out there with MSDN access to documents who may be able to comment on the existing of a feature Microsoft-Windows-NetworkTeamInstaller ?

My best guess is that , if it does exist, it is only compatible with Win11 24H4 LTSC Ent and Ent/IOT editions, it fixes the error from [ New-NetLBFOTeam ] giving an error:

new-NetLBFOTeam : The LBFO feature is not currently enabled, or LBFO is not supported on this SKU.

Thanks,
~Brian

 

[garlin]

There's an article which explains how to extract specific LBFO files from a Server image, and manually install them. Since the author clearly admits that's against the licensing agreement to port Windows features from one edition to another, we won't discuss the process here.

Re-enabling NIC Teaming (LBFO) in Windows 10 & other desktop SKUs, even after Microsoft removed it

 

[bseklecki_ge]

There's an article which explains how to extract specific LBFO files from a Server image, and manually install them. Since the author clearly admits that's against the licensing agreement to port Windows features from one edition to another, we won't discuss the process here.

Re-enabling NIC Teaming (LBFO) in Windows 10 & other desktop SKUs, even after Microsoft removed it

Yea interesting; in fact, while working on that separate issue yesterday (integrating RSAT with NTLITE), I noticed LBFO feature was another set of FOD CABs in the Win11 24H2 LangPack+FOD ISO. I almost added them to my latest experimental daily build yesterday, but changed my mind when I read about what "LBFO" is (was)

(A pre-F5-BIG_IP-hardware-appliance, OS/Server-based SLB subsystem from the 1990s / Windows NT 3.51 <--> Server 2008 era )

Let me re-build my daily Windows 11 build todau, with LBFO, and see if new-NetLBFOTeam begins to function.

I can get approval to do that , but any experimal unapproved procedures to borrow libraries from Server 2022/2025 will not get approved

 

[bseklecki_ge]

Scratch that, the Win11 FOD ISO only provides the management clients ( as part of RSAT ) [ Microsoft-Windows-NetworkLoadBalancing-Tools-FoD-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab ]