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October 2008 - Posts

RPC to Go v.1
The intent of this post is to give TechNet users a quick overview of RPC.  While it is sometimes hard not to delve into separate parts of RPC, I’ll do my best to keep it short.  Developers should use http://msdn.microsoft.com . Let’s Read More...
Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008 9:50 PM by MichaelPlatts | 6 Comments
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How Windows Update Client and NAP Client View Important Updates
If you are configuring Windows Security Heath Validator for Security Update Protection, you have multiple options.  One of these options are 'Important and above' as shown below: This being the case, you may think that any Important Update available Read More...
Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008 9:07 PM by MichaelPlatts | 1 Comments
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Ever wanted to quickly check to see if a server or group of servers were registered in WINS?
During the Windows 2000 beta, I worked with the WINS Development group to add the Verify Name Records option to the WINS server. In this post, I will give you a quick overview of how this works, so you can see how it will quickly answer questions in a Read More...
Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:11 PM by MichaelPlatts | 1 Comments
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New Networking-related KB articles for October 14 - October 20
956803   MS08-066: Vulnerability in the Microsoft Ancillary Function driver could allow elevation of privilege 957095   MS08-063: Vulnerability in SMB could allow remote code execution 955427   Copy process is very slow when you copy large Read More...
Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:54 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments
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New Networking-related KB articles for October 7 - October 13
953835   You cannot perform NetSH commands by using a user account that belongs to the "Network Configuration Operators" security group on a Windows Vista-based computer or on a Windows Server 2008-based computer 957931   A Windows Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:50 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments
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New Networking-related KB articles for September 30 - October 6
957274   An ad hoc network connection is not automatically reconnected when you restart Windows Vista - Mike Platts Read More...
Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:08 PM by MichaelPlatts | 1 Comments
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New Networking-related KB articles for September 22 - September 29
957802   The "Slow network connection time-out for user profiles" Group Policy setting does not work for a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based or a Windows Server 2008-based client computer - Mike Platts Read More...
Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 4:03 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments
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Windows System Health Agent on Windows Vista RTM is only compatible with WSUS
If you are setting up NAP and have your Windows System Health Agent configured to update from Windows Update as shown below: Your Windows Vista RTM clients will be reported as noncompliant and they will get the following error : The Windows update Agent Read More...
Posted: Thursday, October 02, 2008 10:46 PM by MichaelPlatts | 1 Comments
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NLB 101: How NLB balances network traffic
I think one of the most common calls we get with customers who have implemented Network Load Balancing (NLB) is when they notice that the servers aren’t 100% balanced. They’ll notice that one node is getting hammered with traffic while the Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:25 PM by MichaelPlatts | 2 Comments
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