Unidentified networks in Windows Server 2012 forced to be Private

By |2016-10-22T11:39:41+02:00May 24th, 2016|Allgemein, Windows Server|Comments Off on Unidentified networks in Windows Server 2012 forced to be Private

This article describes how we can force a network connection from Microsoft Windows "Network and Sharing Center" that is classified as an “Unidentified Network” to a private network e.g. to solve issues with the firewall rules. The problem is that Windows cannot classify the type of network, often due to there being no default gateway or DNS specified on local network connections. The default solution would be to make it public cause this offers the most restrictive level of network [...]