The 2010 MVP Global Summit ended last Friday on a beautiful spring day here in the Seattle area. It was great to meet some new MVPs such as Mark Minasi , a prolific IT pro writer, and see some familiar faces, such as Ed Horley and Jennelle Crothers ....

The Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 is now available, which includes monitoring of Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) DirectAccess and its components and measuring user activity...

The Solution Accelerators Team has just released the Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA) , a solution accelerator that helps streamline end-user support for DirectAccess. The DCA installs on DirectAccess clients and adds an icon to...

The 2010 MVP Global Summit the week of Feb 16-19 provides an opportunity for Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) to meet with their counterparts in Microsoft product teams. This year, I will be presenting a DirectAccess breakout session and...

You may want to consider modifying the JET database page cache size of your Windows Server 2008 R2 based DHCP server to take advantage of these possible benefits: · Increasing the cache size improves active queue length, ACK/sec, and disk reads per...

The Cable Guy article in the February 2010 issue of TechNet Magazine online, titled “ The Name Resolution Policy Table ,” is now available. The latest versions of Windows use the Name Resolution Policy Table (NRPT) to specify special handling of DNS queries...

The Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Design and Deployment Guide has been updated to include information for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This guide is an excellent way to learn how to design and deploy Windows Firewall and IPsec on...

You may not think DHCP is that exciting, as networking technologies go. It doesn’t have that “new car smell” of DirectAccess or BranchCache . It doesn’t connect the world like TCP/IP. It just hangs out on your network—like an old friend—ready to give...

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. In January 2010, the following Windows networking topics have been updated based...