Monday, 19 August 2013

Server 2012–Unidentified Network with Team Set As Public

This is a bit of a frustrating problem:

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After setting up the team things were fine.

However, after a reboot the server has disappeared on the network.

After logging in we see that the team is active but the network is unidentified and the firewall is on Public:

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Restart the Network Location Awareness service:

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Then hit refresh in the Firewall MMC:

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And refresh in NCPA.CPL (Network Connections):

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It turns out that in situations where a Windows Server 2012 native NIC team is set up the Network Location Awareness service should be set to Automatic (Delayed Start) to give the team time to start!

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Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

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5 comments:

  1. Shayne Kawalilak20 August, 2013 08:57

    Wow... great timing on this little gem... we just spend an hour looking for a workaround to this last week... we will be correcting our solution with yours to confirm it works in our environment. Our "hack" (for lack of a better word) was not a great work around but it did solve the problem. Your solution has a little more grace.

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  2. Anonymous18 September, 2013 17:04

    Thanks alot for this post, it solved by issue.

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  3. Shan U.13 January, 2014 00:16

    Perfect, working again.
    Thx for your solution.

    Regards Shan.U

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  4. Anonymous17 May, 2014 04:34

    Thanks for this solution!

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  5. Anonymous18 March, 2015 21:55

    In my work environment, we use Windows 2012 servers, where we are experiencing same issue, we bounce the NIC of server to bring it back to network.

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