New-NetNat Invalid property "InternalIPInterfqaceAddressPrefix"

In Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, it is easy for us to create NAT network for virtual machines without additional virtual machine to be a router. However, when you create a NAT network in Hyper-V environment. You may have the below problem.

To solve this problem, we can do the following steps.
1. Launch PowerShell as administrator.
2. Perform Suspend-Service winmgmt to pause the Windows Management Instrumentation service.

3. Perform Rename-Item -Path C:\Windows\System32\wbem\repository\ -NewName repository_OLD to rename repository folder.

4. Perform Resume-Service winmgmt to resume the Windows Management Instrumentation service.

Now, you can perform New-NAT to create the NAT network for virtual machine.

Remark: After resume winmgmt service, you may also need to restart Hyper-V Virtual Machine Managment service.

For creating NAT network on Hyper-V, please check the following link for your reference.
Set up a NAT network

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