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Copper Contributor

Sep 05, 2021

Windows Server 2022 Unable to restart 'Network Location Awareness' Service

Testing server 2022 (core) GA on two machines; one physical, one virtual. When I attempt to restart the network location awareness service using the command: restart-service -Name NlaSvc -For...

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Windows Server 2022

nileshpancholi

Copper Contributor

Feb 15, 2023

TT_Vert Hi Dave, I managed to fix mine by adding the DNS suffix on my IPV4 adapter. Now my DC boots to Domain Network on every reboot.

IPV4 Properties > General > Advanced > DNS > Register Suffix for this connection (add your domain name e.g. "domain.local").

I also set the Network Location Awareness service to "Delayed Start"

Hope the above helps.

TT_Vert

Copper Contributor

Feb 17, 2023

nileshpancholi

Thank you for that. I did add that to my biggest problem child 2022 server and it seems to have worked. Going to try that on a few more servers and see if it resolves it. I appreciate you taking the time to mention this. Shocking MS doesn't have any official solution to this like you do.

Dave

TT_Vert
Copper Contributor
Apr 04, 2023

Wanted to update that the adding the domain suffix was only a temp fix as it started doing this again. So I now have a script to disable/enable IPv6 when I need to resolve this. Annoying to say the least.

Dave