Hi! My name is Sai Balaji and I work with Microsoft Networking Support in Bangalore. I primarily help Premier Customers resolve their real time Windows Networking issues. The ‘push’ that I got to write this first post of mine goes back to my own experiences...

General Deployment information Because I support the Windows Firewall I often get asked for guidance on deploying it. David Bishop wrote a nice white paper on deploying the Windows Firewall so I won’t repeat it all here but this is my go to link when...

Have you ever wondered how Windows knows you’re connected to the Internet? You may have noticed the over the network icon by the clock, have you ever wondered what happens in the background? This blog aims to find answers to these and related questions...

I recently heard from Joe Davies that the 3rd edition of his Understanding IPv6 book is available!     This edition builds on the treasure trove of information found in Understanding IPv6, 2nd Edition, which included updates for Windows Vista...

My name is Prachand and I am an SE on the Platforms Networking Team. My intent of this post is for it to be a quick reference guide for setting up secure wireless networking using Microsoft products. It describes how to create an infrastructure for authentication...

In addition to the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Windows Server “8” Beta is also available to test. We would like to encourage you IT Pros and software developers to try it out. Yesterday, Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President of Server and Cloud, announced...

What are Understand and Troubleshoot Guides (UTG)? The Windows Server “8” Beta Understand and Troubleshoot Guides (UTG) help IT administrators and architects develop awareness of key technical concepts, functionality, and troubleshooting techniques. This...

We get questions from customers asking how they can disable a wireless connection when they are connected to a physical network. There can be various reasons for wanting to do this but they are often misguided. First let me say – Windows does not currently...

I have worked with number of customers who have faced the scenario where few or many (important) DNS records disappear from a DNS zone and they are left only with a question as to who or what deleted those records. There could be a number of scenarios...

Like last week, I have only one new article to share this time: 2524478 The network location profile changes from "Domain" to "Public" in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 - Mike Platts

After a deluge of new networking-related articles last week, I have just one to share this time: 2568645 Firewall exceptions not honored after cluster failover - Mike Platts

Quite a variety of new articles were released this week, covering a number of networking technologies and operating system versions: 2523887 You may encounter file corruption issues when you use the Offline Files feature to synchronize data in Windows...

As discussed in the previous posts in this series, there can be several causes that will prevent the Windows Firewall from starting. In this installment I will cover specifics of checking dependencies. Checking Dependencies When checking dependencies...

The Windows Firewall Service Fails to start – Checking Privilege Access As discussed in the previous posts in this series, there can be several causes that will prevent Windows Firewall from starting. In this installment, part 4 of 5 in the series, I...

I have just one new networking-related article to mention this week: 2465408 Applications or services cannot update their routing tables after they receive route change notifications in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 - Mike Platts

As discussed in my previous posts in this series, there can be several causes that will prevent the Windows Firewall from starting. In this installment, part 3 of 5, I will cover specifics of checking registry permissions. Checking Registry Permissions...

This is part two in my series on Windows Firewall failing to start. In part one , I covered Windows XP and gave an overview of the issues seen in Windows Vista and Windows 7. As discussed, there can be several causes that will prevent the firewall from...

Like last week, I have one new networking-related article to share this time: 2560995 Intel’s My WiFi Technology stops working after resuming from sleep or hibernate in Windows 7 - Mike Platts

There can be several causes that will prevent the Windows Firewall from starting and I will attempt to cover them in this series of five blog posts. In this first post, I will cover Windows XP and Windows Vista / Windows 7 separately as they are two different...

Happy World IPv6 Day! I wanted to remind you that various Microsoft sites, among many others, are running IPv6 today to allow ISPs, hardware manufacturers, and various other businesses to test communication in a large scale. If you would like to learn...

I have one new networking-related article for this week: 2473489 IP address and default gateway settings are assigned incorrectly in Windows Vista, in Windows Server 2008, in Windows 7, and in Windows Server 2008 R2 - Mike Platts

I have three new networking-related articles to share with you this week: 2533454 Resolving Internet connectivity issues on World IPv6 Day (June 8, 2011) 2550576 STOP 0xC4 may occur in tcpipreg.sys following a reboot after Driver Verifier is enabled on...

Christopher Palmer has written a post describing Microsoft’s participation in World IPv6 Day on June 8, 2011. He also has some great introductory information on IPv6 and what differentiates it from IPv4. On World IPv6 Day, a number of companies will enable...

This week, I have two new networking-related articles to share with you: 2524426 MS11-035: Vulnerability in WINS could allow remote code execution: May 10, 2011 2550500 Editing the properties for a network adapter may result in unedited adapters being...

Hello all, my name is Mehul and I am with Platforms Networking support. We receive many calls dealing with slow file transfer when copying files using TCP (such as SMB file copying or FTP file transfer). The recommended approach to troubleshoot these...