How do you change network location type on Server 2012?

Question

_{Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:55 PM}

Within Network & Sharing Center there appears to be no options available to change a network type as you could do in Server 2012?

Within Network List Manager policies everything is set to "not configured" so this should not be disabling any functionality.

Thanks.

All replies (3)

_{Thursday, December 13, 2012 5:27 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi,

Firstly, if the server is domain joined, when it starts to detect the network location, the machine will contact a DC via port 389. If this detection successful, it will get the domain profile. And we cannot change it.

However, if the server is not domain joined, the domain was not found or process failed, NLA will let you to determine which firewall profile will be used, private or public.

We can do this by referring to Turn sharing on or off or How to change network location type in Windows 8.

Also we can refer to Network Location Awareness (NLA) and how it relates to Windows Firewall Profiles.

All the above articles can apply to Windows Server 2012.

Hope this helps.

Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support

_{Monday, February 3, 2014 5:29 PM | 1 vote}

Hi,

this has been changed for 2012 R2. Can you please give me Details about how to Change the Location in 2012 R2?

Thanks,
Klaus

_{Monday, March 14, 2016 5:40 PM | 5 votes}

this is one of the correct way:

http://clintboessen.blogspot.ca/2013/11/how-to-change-your-network-profile-in.html