Hi there I've mentioned the Core Network Guide and the Server Certificates deployment guide in the last couple of blog posts, and today I'm announcing the publication of the Windows Server "8" Beta Core Network Companion Guide: Computer and User Certificate...

For those of you who prefer to read content on the Web rather than downloading a Word version of the guide, the Core Network Companion Guide: Server Certificate Deployment is now available in HTML format in the Windows Server "8" Technical Library, at...

The Windows Server “8” Beta Core Network Companion Guide: Deploying Server Certificates is now available in Word format in the Microsoft Download Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=251761 . This guide explains how to build...

The Core Network Guide for Windows Server "8" Beta is now live on the Web in HTML format at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh911995.aspx , and in Word format in the Microsoft Download Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=248606...

Check out all the great new content for Windows Server "8" Beta! Networking 802.1X Authenticated Wired Access Managing the Wired Network (IEEE 802.3) Policies Settings BranchCache Domain Name System (DNS) Step-by-Step: Demonstrate...

In response to requests for downloadable versions of the NAP Design Guide and the NAP Deployment Guide , I've posted *.doc versions of these guides on the Download Center. Visit the following link: Network Access Protection (NAP) Design and Deployment...

In this blog post , Brian Posey highlighted Windows PowerShell as an essential Windows networking skill going forward. In a new series of blog posts, we will highlight existing networking-based Windows PowerShell scripts in the Script Center Repository...

On Wednesday, Nov 2, I presented an technical overview of the Network Access Protection (NAP) technology to the Seattle Windows Networking User Group . We talked about the purpose of NAP, the different NAP enforcement methods, and then dove into the architecture...

In this blog post , Brian Posey highlighted Windows PowerShell as an essential Windows networking skill going forward. In a new series of blog posts, we will highlight existing networking-based Windows PowerShell scripts in the Script Center Repository...

At the Windows //build/ conference last month , Windows Server product teams presented a number of sessions on Windows Server 8 topics, some of them networking-related. Check out this post on Jose Berreto's blog for links to the recorded sessions:...

Tod Edwards, my colleague in Microsoft's Customer Support Services (CSS) for many years, has published the following article in Windows iT Pro Magazine: Give Microsoft’s Scalable Networking Pack Another Look In this article, he describes...

The How to disable IP version 6 (IPv6) or its specific components in Windows 7, in Windows Vista, in Windows Server 2008 R2, and in Windows Server 2008 Knowledge Base article has been updated with the following: The recommendation against disabling...

In this blog post , Brian Posey highlighted Windows PowerShell as an essential Windows networking skill going forward. In a new series of blog posts, we will highlight existing networking-based Windows PowerShell scripts in the Script Center Repository...

Check out this article on PCMag.com, 10 Killer Windows Server 8 Features for IT Pros . Two of the ten killer features are networking-based: NIC teaming The ability to bundle sets of network adapters together and make them appear as a single network...

Hey DNS fans, Microsoft Support Engineer Sheh Shah has published Tracking DNS Record Deletion in the Microsoft Enterprise Networking Team blog . This post describes in great technical detail the process of enabling auditing and viewing the audit events...

In this blog post , I described how you can provide us with ratings and comments for our topics on TechNet and MSDN through the Click to Rate and Give Feedback facility. Recently, the following Windows networking topics were updated based on your comments...

The IPv6 Survival Guide (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/ipv6-survival-guide.aspx) is featured on the TechNet Wiki home page . The IPv6 Survival Guide contains an organized set of links to Microsoft and third-party resources...

Hey Windows Firewall fans, Senior Support Escalation Engineer David Pracht has published the following set of articles about understanding and troubleshooting why the Windows Firewall service fails to start in the Microsoft Enterprise Networking Team...

We posted a new video at TechNet Edge: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/running-setprint-ps1-on-windows-server-2008-r2 This video shows you how to run a PowerShell script that sets default settings for all the print queues on your Windows...

The topic titled Change Driver Installation Security for Printers Deployed Using Group Policy has been updated by Senior Technical Writer Vic Horne based on your feedback. Vic made a technical correction about the location of the Point and Print Restrictions...

Windows Server: The Power of Integration in TechNet Magazine describes how you can use multiple features and technologies of the Windows client and server platforms to create new value in the form of a solution that addresses an IT capability or business...

Greetings IPv6 fans, IPv6 Program Manager Christopher Palmer just posted World IPv6 Day and Windows  in the IPv6 Product Team blog . Check this out for information about World IPv6 Day on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. It includes an IPv6 Connectivity...

In this blog post , I described how the Windows Server networking writing team won six awards from the Puget Sound chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). The STC is an independent professional association that advances the arts and...

To help you develop and publish your own Learning Roadmap in the TechNet Wiki, the Learning Roadmaps template provides you with the basic structure of a Learning Roadmap topic and boilerplate text for filling out the Prerequisite, Level 100, Level 200...

The Demonstrating an IPv6-only Environment extension for the IPv6 Test Lab is now available. With this extension, you reconfigure DC1, the native IPv6 router for the Corpnet and Corpnet2 subnets, to stop advertising address prefixes and act as a DHCPv6...