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?

Solution 1

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

Solution 2

try

net stop nlasvc as admin

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

Comments

[Drifter104]

Check the answers here, many still apply for server 2012r2 serverfault.com/questions/362374/…

[Sam Doxy]

Be sure that you are using the rigth interface Index

[Gustav]

Had the same error as @KarlHenselin. Index was right. Had to remove the server from the domain, then rejoin.

[Ben Personick]

This is how I was able to resolve the issue on my system after a power outage made this happen on my desktop. Using the Powershell method only resulted in "Unable to set NetworkCategory to 'DomainAuthenticated'."