You find yourself talking to your network administrator and they need to know what your Windows machine MAC address is. Your device might be blocked, or they are helping you troubleshoot some layer 1 issue… How do you quickly find, fetch, and retrieve your MAC address?

I’m sure some of you would dive into your device properties, find your network adapter, and start looking at it’s hardware properties. Some of you would run an “ipconfig /all” and then look through that text dump to grab your physical address. Others would go through ‘Windows Settings’ or the ‘Control Panel’ or use PowerShell or other similar methods to find it.

Yes, there are many ways to find it. But there is only one truly quick way to grab all of your Windows Device’s MAC addresses. You are just going to open your terminal, it doesn’t matter if your preference is Command Prompt or PowerShell, and run the “GetMac” command. This will pull up every MAC address on your device, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. No sorting through a wall of text with information you don’t need. Just your MAC addresses as a list, table, or csv. Let take a look below.

getmac /v

This will be the default command you use to get a verbose view of all of your MAC addresses. All at once with the connection name to make it easy to identify the desired NIC.

Variations of the command that you would use to return a list, table, or csv are:

getmac /v /FO list

getmac /v /FO table

getmac /v /FO csv

Believe it or not, this command has been around since Windows XP! Comment below if you knew that, if you have used it before, or if you are just learning about it today.