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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 and Windows Server 2008. Understanding IPv6, 3rd...

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 7 2525835 MS11-047: Vulnerability in Microsoft Hyper...

I had no new articles to present last week, and this week I have just two new ones. Enjoy! 2536720 Third-party applications or services encounter an authentication failure when security update 2478960 is installed in Windows Server 2003 2546625 Operation could not be completed (error 0x00000709) when...

I have three new networking-related articles to share with you this time around: 2514936 You cannot manage a remote DNS server by using RSAT or the DNS MMC on Window Server-based computers 2514953 The DNS Zone Transfer setting is not retained in Windows Server 2008 2514994 A static record is not updated...

I have one new networking-related article to share this week: 2502370 "The following updates might need to be reinstalled" message when you try to install SP1 for Windows 7 or for Windows Server 2008 R2 I will keep an eye out for any additional networking-related articles and report them to...

Happy New Year! At long last, I’m back at work and armed with the latest content. Here are the latest networking-related articles for the past few weeks: 2440591 MS10-099: Vulnerability in Routing and Remote Access could allow elevation of privilege 2470540 The host record of a computer that has a static...

Like last week, I have just two new networking-related articles to share with you this time. Enjoy! 2264957 A network adapter that has a Japanese device description is not displayed in the route table on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 2385596 An update that adds 33 configuration...

What I have to share this week is nothing compared to the mountain of content released last week, but here are the latest networking-related articles: 2448270 Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor tool failed to run with error message “Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor was unable to reach the Microsoft server for compatibility...

The drought appears to be over! I have quite a number of new networking-related articles to share with you this week: 2248145 IPsec connection in the IKEv1 tunnel mode fails from a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 2353808 The WINS replication operation fails on a failover...

Hi everyone – I just have one new networking-related article to share with you: 2018583 Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 domain join displays error "Changing the Primary Domain DNS name of this computer to "" failed...." - Mike Platts

Hi all – this week I have 5 new networking-related articles to share with you: 2366024 Primary DNS suffix for a Windows server 2008, Windows server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows Vista, deployment using an Answer file may not be set. 2282988 DNS Model for MBCA 2.0 for Windows Server 2008 - download location...

Hi everyone. Here are the most recently published networking-related articles: 2269810 Microsoft support for Single Label Domains 2272153 It takes four minutes for a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 to open a Microsoft Office 2003 document from a network share 2383674 Long...

I only have one new recently published article to share for this week: 2299432 Winsock name resolution APIs use separate cache entries for AF_UNSPEC and AF_INET/AF_INET6 queries - Mike Platts

I have just one recently published networking-related article to share this time around: 2269838 Microsoft product compatibility with Single Label Domains, Disjointed Namespaces, and Discontiguous Namespaces - Mike Platts

I’d like to apologize for not having any new KB articles to post for the past several weeks; some changes have been going on with the tools I use to find this information. Here are the most recent networking-related KB articles since my last entry on May 13th. I apologize in advance for any duplicates...

We have two new networking-related Knowledge Base articles to let you know about this week: 981370 The DNS Server service on an RODC does not respond to DNS queries for several minutes if the link to some RWDCs breaks in Windows Server 2008 981190 The Network Policy Server (NPS) does not authenticate...

After a couple weeks with no new networking-related Knowledge Base articles, the floodgates have opened once again! On a related note, I am considering reducing the frequency of this post to twice monthly to avoid creating blog posts to let you know we have no new KB articles for a given week. Feel free...

We have had a couple of lean weeks recently with very few new KB articles to report, but that is certainly not the case this time around! Here are the latest networking-related KB articles: 979554 The creator of an SNMP trap notification cannot be identified in Windows Server 2003 978972 Stop error message...

After a week with nothing to report, we finally have a few new networking-related KB articles this time around: 978943 Windows Server 2008 R2-based NLB nodes remain in a converging state indefinitely 979602 Error message when you try to connect to a printer by using an alias (CNAME) resource record:...

I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season. Here are the latest networking-related Knowledge Base articles published in the past 2 weeks: 961186   NDIS 5.x USB network adapters do not appear in Performance Monitor 961256   The DNS PTR record might be deleted if you change the DNS server...

I hope everyone who had a holiday last week had a great one. Here are the latest networking-related Knowledge Base articles published in the past 2 weeks: 977158 DNS updates may be incorrectly reported as failed when you use a third-party DNS server application for DNS registration on a computer that...

Here are the most recently published networking-related Knowledge Base articles: 975830 The memory usage of the Dns.exe process keeps increasing after you install hotfix 941672 on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2 and that has the DNS server role installed 975792 Numeric host names cannot...

Here are the latest networking-related Knowledge Base articles: 973509 The advanced security settings for Windows Firewall that you deploy by using a Group Policy object (GPO) are not displayed in Windows Vista or in Windows 2008 975212 When you use a VPN connection that uses Smart Card authentication...

We have 4 new KB articles that may be of interest this week: 971295 Error message when an application tries to write data to a shared file if another application has read-only access to the same file on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003: "Delayed Write Failed" 970176 A Windows...

This week, I have 4 new KB articles to share: 974080 DirectAccess Workaround for reaching IPv4 address checking sites 971383 Data loss occurs when the Winsock "recv" function returns 0 bytes if both the client-side and the server-side applications run on the same computer that is running Windows...