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New Networking-related KB articles for the week of October 18 – October 24

Here is the list of the most recently published networking-related Knowledge Base articles: 976723 IPv6 network address seems case-sensitive at address assignment for multiple network adapters installed on a Windows7 and Windows Sever 2008 R2 based computer. Read More...

Posted: Friday, October 30, 2009 5:10 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, KB Articles, DHCP Server, SMB, IPv6, NAP, Windows 7, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 R2, VPN

New Networking-related KB articles for the week of August 30 – September 5

Here are the most recently published networking-related Knowledge Base articles: 972840 The SNMP service does not respond to all SNMP requests on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 after the Group Policy settings are refreshed 972071 Applications Read More...

Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:18 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments

Filed under: KB Articles, SMB, IPv6, SNMP, AFD

Source IP address selection on a Multi-Homed Windows Computer

There is often confusion about how a computer chooses which adapter to use when sending traffic. This blog describes the process by which a network adapter is chosen for an outbound connection on a multiple-homed computer, and how a local source IP address Read More...

Posted: Friday, April 24, 2009 9:59 PM by MichaelPlatts | 7 Comments

Filed under: IPv6, IPv4

DNS Round Robin and Destination IP address selection

This post is meant to discuss the issues that can occur with Destination IP address selection and its affect on the DNS Round Robin process. What is Round Robin and Netmask Ordering DNS Round Robin is a mechanism for choosing an IP address from the list Read More...

Posted: Friday, April 17, 2009 5:18 PM by MichaelPlatts | 2 Comments

Filed under: DNS, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, IPv6, IPv4

New Networking-related KB articles for the week of June 21 - June 26

953730 The netsh command cannot start the PNRP Machine Name Publication Service on a Windows Server 2008-based computer 952899 Event IDs 1018 and 1020 appear in the Application log after you remove the SNMP service on a Windows Server 2008-based Read More...

Posted: Monday, July 07, 2008 7:43 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windows Vista, NLB, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, KB Articles, Windows XP, Wireless, IPv6, BITS, Windows Firewall, SNMP

New Networking-related KB articles for the week of May 31 - June 6

951851 The WebClient service stop responding when you try to map a network drive to a WebDAV shared folder from a Windows Server 2003-based computer 950092 Third-party vendors may be unable to achieve IPv6 Ready Logo Phase-2 certification Read More...

Posted: Monday, June 16, 2008 8:07 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server 2003, KB Articles, WebDAV, IPv6

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

Filed under: DNS, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, IPv6, Network Discovery, LLMNR

Windows Vista Networking-related Knowledge Base Articles for the week ending February 8th

Here is a healthy dose of KB articles regarding Windows Vista: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947229 On a Windows Vista-based computer, Windows Firewall applies local program and port exceptions in the private and public profiles even when the Windows Read More...

Posted: Monday, February 18, 2008 8:10 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windows Vista, KB Articles, IPv6, NAP, Windows Firewall

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Networking-related Knowledge Base Articles for the week ending January 25th

Here are two recent KB articles for Windows Server 2003 and 2008: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944135 The recvfrom function stops responding when you use the sendto function in the IPv6 raw socket to send an ICMP packet and then use the recvfrom Read More...

Posted: Friday, February 08, 2008 10:12 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, KB Articles, IPv6

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 | 1 Comments

Filed under: DNS, Windows Server 2003, KB Articles, DHCP Server, IPv6