How to force network profile to Private for every network connection?

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How to force network profile to Private for every network connection?

Brian890504 31

Hi,

I am doing a system deployment where it consists of a few windows machines that form a local network and exchange data between each machine. It is a requirement from the software vendor that these windows machines must be running in Private network profile in order to get the system works without issues.

The local area network is then linked to a router for an internet connection.

My problem is every time I provision the setup in my staging lab when I move it to the client side during the actual installation date, the network profile seems to change to Public automatically once it is connected to the client side network.

Please take note that the network name is not pre-specified for the client-side router, thus I am not able to simply pre-set the network profile in the Windows registry.

Even though it can be manually switching to Private network profile, I would like to know does anyone how can we fix all the future upcoming network profiles to stay Private no matter which network it connects to.

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You could do

Set-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceAlias myEthernet -NetworkCategory "Private"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/netconnection/set-netconnectionprofile?view=windowsserver2022-ps

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Anonymous

2022-10-08T19:55:17.69+00:00

Just checking if there's any progress or updates?

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Brian890504 31 Reputation points

2022-10-09T05:47:40.07+00:00

Hi,

I have tried to perform that in Windows Powershell, and this is what I am getting:

My network interface card has the name Ethernet, thus I modified the command from "myEthernet" to "Ethernet", is that the correct way to do it?
Dillon Silzer 57,831 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2022-10-09T06:08:05.937+00:00

Hi @Brian890504

To add to DSPatrick's answer, try running PowerShell as Admin:
Brian890504 31 Reputation points

2022-10-09T06:30:53.643+00:00

Oh ya now it seems successful, thanks a lot.

I will need to monitor the behavior in the next deployment, to see if it get switched back to Public profile again when i relocate the entire system to the live site. Thanks all.
Anonymous

2022-10-09T12:56:10.877+00:00

Just checking if there's any progress or updates?

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Brian890504 31 Reputation points

2022-10-09T14:07:45.75+00:00

Hi, we will have to wait until the next 2 days to know the results. Thanks.
Anonymous

2022-10-09T14:09:00.427+00:00

Sounds good, please don't forget to close up the thread by
Dillon Silzer 57,831 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2022-10-09T14:24:20.497+00:00

Please accept DSPatrick’s answer so others can find this answer more easily.

Glad it worked out for you!

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