May, 2008

The Purpose Hello, Our names are David Pracht and Steve Martin.  As Networking Support Professionals at Microsoft we support IPSec but historically it has not been a high call generator.  We designed this lab to explore an increasingly popular...

950876   Group Policy settings are not applied on member computers that are running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista SP1 when certain SMB signing policies are enabled 951058   The "Automatically restore this connection when computer...

Prior to SP3, the 802.1x service for XP is the Wireless Zero Configuration Service. This service handles the 802.1x needs for both wired and wireless connections. This has been problematic since not everyone uses wired 802.1x. Also, because the wired...

Ask a DNS administrator and he’ll tell you there is no such thing as being “too careful” with DNS data! One of the dreaded things is to check the box for Auto Scavenging. A slight mis-configuration can lead to useful DNS entries getting...

951088   Error message when you use SMB-to-NFS gateway software that exposes mounted NFS shared folders as SMB shared folders on a Windows Server 2008-based computer: "Stop 0x0000007E" 951016   Description of User Account Control and...

Windows Server 2008 is here, along with a new version of Network Load Balancing (NLB).  Just as in previous versions, NLB continues to provide an excellent option for scaling many kinds of applications and promoting higher availability.  And...

Here are the latest Networking-related Knowledge Base articles: 951764   How to enable the port scalability feature for RPC proxies and for applications in Windows Server 2008 950499   You may be unable to use the "netsh interface"...

The latest Service Pack for Windows XP, SP3, is now available for download.  Of note in this release, Windows XP with Service Pack 3 will have the ability to be a NAP (Network Access Protection) client.  Also, Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2...

Here are the latest Networking-related KB articles: 948927   Error message when you use SmartCard-only authentication to log on to a Windows Vista-based client computer in a wireless network environment: "Cannot connect to <SSID>: Please...

There is a recently added Troubleshooting section to the Windows Server 2008 Technical Library.  This new area contains troubleshooting information for many areas, including: Networking DHCP Infrastructure DNS Infrastructure File Services NAP Infrastructure...