Change Windows 2012 R2 Network from Public to Domain

Question

I upgraded the Network Card Drivers for my Domain Controller but now it is seeing the local lan as a PUBLIC network which is messing with my firewall rules.

How do I switch it back to DOMAIN?

Answer 1

try

net stop nlasvc as admin

if this works, you can set this service (nlasvc) to "start delayed"

Answer 2

You can use Powershell to achieve this. First you have to list network profile

Get-NetConnectionProfile

Use interface index to change the network interface to domain.

Set-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceIndex 7 -NetworkCategory Domain

Answer 3

Here is the answer... https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/98f41513-df6f-4065-975a-6d6dc2308a94/server-2012-r2-change-network-location-from-public-to-private

Reboot or disable/enable the NIC afterwards.