Windows 10: Win 10 build 1809 keeps changing domain network to unidentified public

Hi, I have been trying for three days to set up a brand new machine in our AD domain network. All our machines use static IP addresses assigned during setup, and the primary DNS points first to the domain controller. I'm using Win 10 build 1809 (that is the build on the DVD). Installed Windows, set the static IP, gateway and DNS of the machine, then joined the machine to the domain and added domain user account with admin privileges (so I could install software and finish setup). All seems well at first, as the Network and Sharing Center reports the network type as a Domain network. I can see the other computers in the AD domain after turning on network discovery and file and printer sharing. HOWEVER - with no apparent reason why this happened, I left the setup of this machine to do another task, and when I returned to it, I found that the Network and Sharing Center now reports that the machine is on an UNIDENTIFIED PUBLIC network, and that network discovery and file and printer sharing is turned off. I cannot see the other computers in the AD domain at all. The domain controller still reports that the new machine is an AD domain member, but the new machine itself doesn't seem to know that.

I'm not having any problems getting to the Internet on this machine.

I have tried removing the machine from the AD domain and then re-adding it. It seems to function correctly only for a short period before the network type "reverts" to UNIDENTIFIED PUBLIC. I have reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled Windows TWICE, thinking that something went squirrelly and that a reinstall might fix it. No joy. NOTHING has fixed this problem - and I've spent a lot of time on Google looking for answers. I'm wondering if it's another strange bug in build 1809.

Does ANYONE have any idea what might be happening? And what I can do about it? I've been an IT pro for over 35 years now, and have NEVER seen a Windows installation / setup go squirrelly like this one.

In case it helps, the computer has the following specs:

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-core processor
Gigabyte B450M DS3H micro-ATX motherboard w/Realtek PCIe GbE 10/100/1000 LAN chip
G.SKILL Ripjaws V series SDRAM DDR4 PC3200, 2 - 4 GB modules
MSI Radeon HD 6450 1 GB DDR3 graphics card
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM010 1 TB 7,200 rpm internal hard drive
Lite-On iHAS124-14 SATA DVD burner
EVGA 450 watt power supply
Antec mid-tower computer case

At this point, I am inclined to use an earlier build of Windows 10 that I kept, and do yet another reinstall. The last new machine I setup before this one started out with the earlier build of Windows 10, and I NEVER saw this problem on it at all, not even after getting all the latest Windows updates and feature upgrades.

Suggestions are very welcome, and thanks in advance!

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Hi Brink and thank you for the welcome

I tried what you suggested but when doing this, i noticed that whenever i am connected to my VPN, the Windows network shows up as "unidentified network" instead of network 1,2,3 or whatever. So when i went into regedit and looked for networks, i found some but none called unidentified.
There was one network with the value 0 so i changed it to 1 (private) but after checking, my VPN connection still shows as public.

I am not really sure why it says unidentified network in Windows when i am connected to the VPN but it seems that this is the cause for the problem. If i could only find the VPN network in the list of networks in regedit, i think i would be able to change the value to 1.

Hmm..not sure how to proceed with this. Any ideas?

 

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