September, 2008

Installation of Windows XP Service Pack 3 results in the Windows Firewall service being set to Automatic startup, regardless of its previous startup setting. After installing Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, you may be surprised to see that both the Windows...

The Microsoft IPSec Diagnostic Tool can help its users troubleshoot IPSec-related issues on a system.  It also captures non-IPSec parameters like system data, network interface, group policy, and Windows services like NAP, firewall, RRAS, Wireless...

Introduction to the “Don’t be THAT guy” blog: I come in to work every day and get calls with these exact scenarios. Of course, the names have been changed to protect the innocent and to keep the guilty from having to find new jobs. The...

Windows SBS 2008 has just released to manufacturing!  The latest version will be available in November.  Check out the details over at the Official SBS Blog: SBS 2008: Release to Manufacturing! - Mike Platts

On October 1, 2008 the Professional level “Enterprise Platforms Support” business at Microsoft will transition to a call-back model for all Professional support incidents in the United States and Canada. Below is a description of how to contact Microsoft...

954809   You cannot access a WebDAV site whose SSL setting for client certificates is set to Accept if you cancel the Select Certificate dialog box on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 955804   In Windows Vista...

The latest version has a number of cool new features, not to mention some bug fixes.  Here are a few of the new features available: Process Tracking enables identification of applications on your machine that generate network traffic. Re-designed...

946887 A Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008-based computer cannot negotiate the security mode with the partner if you use a subnet address as a source address or as a destination filter address when you configure IPsec policy to use tunnel mode - Mike...

950224   A Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) hotfix rollup package is available for Windows Server 2003 955512   Applications or services that call the WNetOpenEnum function may crash when the number of network providers exceeds 16 on a Windows...

955386   DHCP server log files may be corrupted in Asian language versions of Windows Server 2008, such as in the Japanese, Chinese, or Korean editions of Windows Server 2008 956774   A Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) client cannot...