I recently talked with my teammate and office neighbor Dave Bishop about his background as an IT administrator and trainer and his passion as a technical writer of networking technologies in Windows. Click here , and then click on the musical note...

An early version of the DirectAccess Troubleshooting Guide is now available. This version was designed to describe the following: · The troubleshooting tools to use when diagnosing DirectAccess problems. · A step-by-step methodology for troubleshooting...

The DirectAccess Deployment Guide is now available. This guide provides checklists and step-by-step procedures for deploying DirectAccess servers and DirectAccess client settings. Use this guide to answer the “How” questions a deployment team might...

I mentioned in my last blog post, “ Spotlight on BranchCache ,” that I have a BranchCache deployment guide and a design guide in progress – well the good news is that the BranchCache Deployment Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 is now completed...

In a previous, long ago post, I told you I would talk about: “ Birds do it, Bees do it: Why IT Pros should do it too!” You’ve waited long enough and I know the suspense is killing you by now. So, what do the birds and the bees do that you should do too...

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for DirectAccess is now publically available. In a previous blog post , I reported on the beta version. This new IPD guide provides actionable guidance for designing a DirectAccess infrastructure using...

Hello, Windows Networking Developer folks and interested parties! The wireless Hosted Network is a new WLAN feature supported on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Wireless LAN Service installed. This feature implements two major functions...