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Microsoft RemoteAccess reference: Configures the Network Location Server (NLS). The syntax and selected example below are adapted from the pinned Windows Server 2025 reference. Module availability, target configuration and delegated permissions determine whether it can run in your environment. Documentation and parameter text: Microsoft, CC BY 4.0; formatting adapted by Cmdlet World. No execution testing is claimed.
Use an account with the target resource permissions documented for Set-DANetworkLocationServer. Modifying administrative cmdlets may require elevation or delegated administration. This catalog does not assert that ordinary users can execute the command.
Supported environments
Windows / RemoteAccess · Windows Server 2025 documentation; feature/module prerequisites apply
Parameters
-AsJob
Runs the cmdlet as a background job. Use this parameter to run commands that take a long time to complete.
-Certificate
Specifies the certificate to be used when the NLS is configured to be on the DA server.
-CheckReachability
Performs a reachability check to the specified URL and configures the NLS on that server only if the URL is reachable.
-CimSession
Runs the cmdlet in a remote session or on a remote computer. Enter a computer name or a session object, such as the output of a New-CimSession or Get-CimSession cmdlet. The default is the current session on the local computer.
-ComputerName
Specifies the IPv4 or IPv6 address, or host name, of the computer on which the DA server computer specific tasks should be run.
-Confirm
Prompts you for confirmation before running the cmdlet.
-Force
Forces the command to run without asking for user confirmation. When suppressed the cmdlet assumes user confirmation for the following conditions. -- Creation of self-signed certificate when configuring the NLS on the DA server. -- Moving the NLS from the DA server to an external server: The corresponding URL on the DA server is decommissioned. Clients outside corpnet will not receive the updated policies. When the clients enter corporate network, the URL will be inaccessible and the clients will be detected to be outside corporate network. As a result the client will not be able to access corporate resources.
-NlsOnDAServer (required)
Specifies that NLS should be configured on the DA Server, that is the server on which the cmdlet is run. In order for the DA server to act as a NLS an appropriate certificate is required to be installed on the server. By default the cmdlet looks for a certificate on the server. In case of multi-site, load balancing configuration, or multi-site and load balancing configuration the certificate has to be present on all of the servers. If a certificate is not found, then a self-signed certificate is created for this purpose. Before creating the self-signed certificate the cmdlet asks for user confirmation. If the user wishes to specify a certificate explicitly, then the Certificate parameter can be used.
-PassThru
Returns an object representing the item with which you are working. By default, this cmdlet does not generate any output.
-ThrottleLimit
Specifies the maximum number of concurrent operations that can be established to run the cmdlet. If this parameter is omitted or a value of 0 is entered, then Windows PowerShell® calculates an optimum throttle limit for the cmdlet based on the number of CIM cmdlets that are running on the computer. The throttle limit applies only to the current cmdlet, not to the session or to the computer.
-Url (required)
Specifies the URL of a website hosted on a highly available external server which is used as the NLS that provides clients with location information.
-WhatIf
Shows what would happen if the cmdlet runs. The cmdlet is not run.
Prerequisites
Windows with the RemoteAccess module and the Windows feature or management tools that provide it. Confirm target connectivity and version compatibility using the linked Microsoft reference.
Security considerations
This cmdlet changes system state. Review every target and parameter in the official reference, test outside production, and prepare an appropriate backup or rollback. Do not execute the example automatically.
This example configures the NLS on the DA server. This cmdlet first looks for an appropriate certificate on the DA computer itself. Since it is not able to find one it decides to create a self-signed certificate and prompts the user to accept before going ahead and creating one. Source: Microsoft, CC BY 4.0; transcript prompt/output removed. This example was not executed.