Network discovery (stays off)

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• Thursday, April 23, 2009 4:06 PM

   

   
  

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  I go to Network and Sharing Center on a clean install of Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition x64 and I have a role of Hyper-V and I wan to turn on Network Discovery.  I have the server connected to my domain and I select the radio button for Turn on network discovery and I select the Save Changes button and then went I go back into it, it shows that it is on Turn off network discovery. 
  
  I am in Domain (current profile) for the drop down option for Change sharing options for different network profiles.  I even tried to go to Network Discovery for Home or Work and it still stays on the Turn off network discovery after I select the Save Changes button.
  
  I am able to surf the web and I have a VLAN and I have a static IP address assigned to this, I am not able to RDC (Remote Desktop Connection) to it and I am a domain administrator.  I have set RDC to Less Secure and I am not able to connect.  I am on a Microsoft Windows Vista Business x86 SP1 system.

  
  In order to enable the Network Discovery on a domain make sure the following services are enabled and running:
  
  DNS Client
  Function Discovery Resource Publication
  SSDP Discovery
  UPnP Discovery
  
  If all these services are running you will be able to modify the Network Discovery settings.
  

  • Marked As Answer by Sainath IRP_MJ_CREATEMVP, Moderator Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:47 AM
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• Monday, April 27, 2009 5:13 PM

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  hi matthew,
  
  did you had a chance to go through the action plan suggested by "ministry of propaganda" ?

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  • Marked As Answer by Sainath IRP_MJ_CREATEMVP, Moderator Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:46 AM
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• Thursday, June 11, 2009 5:23 PM

   

   
  

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  I think this might be an issue with the firewall, that I have to turn the firewall OFF in order to RDC to it, then I am able to get it to work.
   
• Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:13 PM

   

   
  

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  Your solution works, thanks a bunch!
   
• Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:31 PM

   

   
  

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  For me Sainath, I was looking for a GPO (Group Policy Management) to allow users in my company to display in their DOMAIN.COM, their ability to be seen by others in DOMAIN.com.
  
  Sadly users are all local administrators (political reasons) and so I want to ensure that they are not "hiding" when I want to try to check if they're on the domain, etc.  If they are not allowing themselves to be visible in the domain on Network, Network and Sharing Center for the DOMAIN profile, then I can't see them, nor PING them, nor RDC to them.
   
• Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:40 PM

   

   
  

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  FYI
  
  What is network discovery?
  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-is-network-discovery
  
  Network discovery requires that the DNS Client, Function Discovery Resource Publication, SSDP Discovery, and UPnP Device Host services are started, that network discovery is allowed to communicate through Windows Firewall, and that other firewalls are not interfering with network discovery. If some but not all of these are true, the network discovery state will be shown as Custom [Microsoft]
  
  ... as some one else already cited above.
  
  BTW I was setting up some virtualized servers on Win2008 R2 - some of them actually did pop up (strange enough?) on the network even though network discovery was not on ... anyway thats how I stubled across this problem. I had not set SSDP discovery or UPnp Device Host to off ... probably it is security vs. network changes - so it may go off and disable those 2 services? .. I'll check that out next time I install one ...
  
  Regarding GPO: Have i.e. an OU with a policy on it including starting those 4 system services from which network discovery is functionally dependent (only setting SSDP Discovery and UPnP Device Host to enabled may be enough to configure the software i.e. this is differential programming) and then activate network discovery by enabling Computer Configuration>Policies>Administrative>Templates>Network>Link Layer Topology Discovery and allow domain operations only