Welcome to TechNet Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

News

  • Welcome to the blog for the Microsoft CSS Enterprise Platforms Networking team.

    Disclaimer: All postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights. This weblog does not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans or strategies of Microsoft. Because a weblog is intended to provide a semi-permanent point-in-time snapshot, you should not consider out of date posts to reflect current thoughts and opinions.

    Blog Tools

    Add to Technorati Favorites
    Blog Flux Directory
    Computers Blogs - Blog Top Sites

    Add to Google

    Locations of visitors to this page

May 2008 - Posts

IPSEC Domain Isolation: A Test Study
The Purpose Hello, Our names are David Pracht and Steve Martin.  As Networking Support Professionals at Microsoft we support IPSec but historically it has not been a high call generator.  We designed this lab to explore an increasingly popular Read More...
Posted: Friday, May 30, 2008 3:14 PM by MichaelPlatts | 3 Comments
Filed under:
New Networking-related KB articles for the week of May 10 - May 16
950876   Group Policy settings are not applied on member computers that are running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista SP1 when certain SMB signing policies are enabled 951058   The "Automatically restore this connection when computer Read More...
Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:39 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)
How to deploy XP SP3 in an existing wired 802.1x environment
Prior to SP3, the 802.1x service for XP is the Wireless Zero Configuration Service. This service handles the 802.1x needs for both wired and wireless connections. This has been problematic since not everyone uses wired 802.1x. Also, because the wired Read More...
Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:38 PM by Clay Seymour [MSFT] | 1 Comments
Filed under: ,
Export DNS records to Excel to read time stamps and static records
Ask a DNS administrator and he’ll tell you there is no such thing as being “too careful” with DNS data! One of the dreaded things is to check the box for Auto Scavenging. A slight mis-configuration can lead to useful DNS entries getting Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:07 PM by MichaelPlatts | 1 Comments
Filed under: , ,
New Networking-related KB articles for the week of May 3 - May 9
951088   Error message when you use SMB-to-NFS gateway software that exposes mounted NFS shared folders as SMB shared folders on a Windows Server 2008-based computer: "Stop 0x0000007E" 951016   Description of User Account Control and Read More...
Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008 9:10 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)
Filed under: , , ,
Preparing the Network for NLB 2008
Windows Server 2008 is here, along with a new version of Network Load Balancing (NLB).  Just as in previous versions, NLB continues to provide an excellent option for scaling many kinds of applications and promoting higher availability.  And Read More...
Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:06 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)
Filed under: ,
New Networking-related KB articles for the week of April 26 - May 2
Here are the latest Networking-related Knowledge Base articles: 951764   How to enable the port scalability feature for RPC proxies and for applications in Windows Server 2008 950499   You may be unable to use the "netsh interface" Read More...
Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008 10:48 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)
Filed under: , , ,
Windows XP Service Pack 3 has released!
The latest Service Pack for Windows XP, SP3, is now available for download.  Of note in this release, Windows XP with Service Pack 3 will have the ability to be a NAP (Network Access Protection) client.  Also, Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:24 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)
Filed under: , , ,
New Networking-related KB articles for the week of April 19-25
Here are the latest Networking-related KB articles: 948927   Error message when you use SmartCard-only authentication to log on to a Windows Vista-based client computer in a wireless network environment: "Cannot connect to <SSID>: Please Read More...
Posted: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:29 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)
Filed under: , , ,
New Troubleshooting section on Technet for Windows Server 2008
There is a recently added Troubleshooting section to the Windows Server 2008 Technical Library.  This new area contains troubleshooting information for many areas, including: Networking DHCP Infrastructure DNS Infrastructure File Services NAP Infrastructure Read More...
Posted: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:12 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)
Filed under:
Page view tracker