Network profile reverts to 'Unidentified' following Windows Update reboot

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Published on 2012-10-11T10:52:32Z Indexed on 2012/10/16 5:09 UTC
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I have searched high and low for a solution to this problem.

I have multiple servers running Windows 2000 Server as well as Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2, and 2008 R2. All of these servers are on the same Active Directory domain.

The servers run showing the network profile as Domain Network, which is fine and correct. However, when a Windows update is installed, the server changes the profile to Unidentified Network once it has rebooted. This then doesn't allow any traffic to the server. For security reasons, we can't turn the firewalls off for.

The only way to fix the problem is to physically be in front of the machine and work on it to change the profile back. Once the Profile has been reinstated to the Domain profile, it will be fine until the next month's update.

This happens on all the Windows software mentioned above. The machines are not all identical, so it's not a hardware problem either.

If anyone can help I'd be very grateful.

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