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New Networking-related KB articles for the week of May 17 - May 23
949821   Two options in the “Customize Advanced Key Exchange Settings” dialog box are truncated on a computer that is running the Russian version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) or the Russian version of Windows Server 2008 949825 Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 02, 2008 9:49 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)
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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
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Windows Server 2008 Technical Library
The Windows Server 2008 Technical Library is a great resource for finding information about performing common tasks and operations for Windows technologies.  The content in the networking section of this library offers some great information on many Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 5:22 PM by Michaelvargo | (Comments Off)
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How to benefit from Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution.
In a nutshell, Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) resolves single label names (like: COMPUTER1 ), on the local subnet, when DNS devolution is unable to resolve the name. This is helpful if you are in an Ad-Hoc network scenario, or in a scenario Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:48 PM by Joel-E-O | 1 Comments
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Don't be afraid of DNS Scavenging. Just be patient.
DNS Scavenging is a great answer to a problem that has been nagging everyone since RFC 2136 came out way back in 1997. Despite many clever methods of ensuring that clients and DHCP servers that perform dynamic updates clean up after themselves sometimes DNS can get messy. Remember that old test server that you built two years ago that caught fire before it could be used? Probably not. DNS still remembers it though. There are two big issues with DNS scavenging that seem to come up a lot: Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:49 PM by JoshJones | (Comments Off)
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Networking-related Windows Server KB Articles for November
Here are all the KB articles published related to networking technologies for Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 for November. I plan to be updating these on a weekly basis going forward - enjoy! http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938863 Name Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:13 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)
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Oops, our AD Integrated DNS zone’s are missing in Windows 2003!
I have had several cases where a customer has had their Active Directory-integrated DNS zones deleted, and the change replicated out to all their DNS servers before they caught the deletion. This can be a huge problem, but luckily with a system state Read More...
Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:30 PM by MikeWesley | (Comments Off)
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The strange case of the “stealthy DNS“ server
So there I was.. at a trade show.. stuck with a question that at first glance appeared to have been custom-made by my dear friends in the linux world. “Does Microsoft DNS support the concept of Stealth DNS server?” What exactly is a stealth DNS server? Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 5:00 PM by ranjitjacob | (Comments Off)
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