{"id":1077,"date":"2014-04-20T10:19:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T00:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2014-04-20T10:19:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T00:19:31","slug":"windows-2012-server-and-public-vs-private-network-change-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/2014\/04\/windows-2012-server-and-public-vs-private-network-change-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 2012 server and Public vs Private network change Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First up I have to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenovarain.com\/2012\/09\/server-2012-network-location\/\">http:\/\/www.jenovarain.com\/2012\/09\/server-2012-network-location\/ <\/a>for the starting point on this.<\/p>\n<p>A Windows server without a domain was installed but it had both ethernet interfaces listed as Public networks which meant that specific firewall issues existed, including being unable to connect as a remote desktop user. Turning off the Windows software firewall was one option that did allow the RDP connection to be completed, but this was sub-optimal and not persistent after a reboot.<\/p>\n<p>The above-mentioned URL held out the section of the Windows Server Tools that was needed to setup more open access to allow the user to change the network location from Public to Private.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In \u201cServer Manager\u201d open the \u201cTools\u201d menu and select \u201cLocal Security policy\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Select \u201cNetwork List manager policies\u201d in the console tree.<\/li>\n<li>Open \u201cAll Networks\u201d properties.<\/li>\n<li>Change \u201cNetwork location\u201d to \u201cUser can change location\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Now reboot to apply the changes, or at a command prompt use gpupdate \/force<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But it did not work for me. What I found was that the existing network connection settings were not over-written with the global settings after the reboot.<\/p>\n<p>In the same \u201cNetwork List manager policies\u201d section, I had to select the specific Network Location and apply the changes there as well. Once that was done, the location could be changed from Public to Private, and my server was accessible with the firewall turned on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First up I have to thank http:\/\/www.jenovarain.com\/2012\/09\/server-2012-network-location\/ for the starting point on this. A Windows server without a domain was installed but it had both ethernet interfaces listed as Public networks which meant that specific firewall issues existed, including being unable to connect as a remote desktop user. Turning off the Windows software firewall was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}