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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
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Errors may be seen when attempting to access shares after installation of the update described in KB 968389
If you are unable to access shares on Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP or are being prompted for credentials, or are having authentication issues, then it might be due to an incorrect installation of the hotfix described in KB 968389 . Please check to Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:14 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments
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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
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Microsoft Security Advisory 975497 Released
What is the purpose of this alert? This alert is to notify you that Microsoft has released Security Advisory 975497– Vulnerabilities in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution - on September 08, 2009. Summary Microsoft is investigating new public reports Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 4:46 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments
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New Networking-related KB articles for the week of August 2 – August 8
We have 4 new KB articles that may be of interest this week: 971295 Error message when an application tries to write data to a shared file if another application has read-only access to the same file on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003: Read More...
Posted: Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:03 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments
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Slow File Transfer with Service Pack 2 on Windows Server 2003?
One of the most common calls we get is that file transfers are “slow,” causing us to collect network traces and perfmon logs in order to determine if the transfer is slower than it should be and, if so, what is the cause. I had a case recently where a Read More...
Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:50 PM by MichaelPlatts | 2 Comments
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Network connectivity issues post deployment of MS09-001? Try updating your Anti Virus Signature
One of our customers reported an issue after applying the update per KB958687 (MS09-001), which installs a new version of SRV.SYS. The customer was experiencing the following symptoms: Request Timed Out error when trying ping the problem machine from Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:58 PM by MichaelPlatts | 1 Comments
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SMB and the Red Herring
Sometimes when reviewing network captures, there are messages in the trace that seem to be indicative of the issue, but once you dig deeper, you realize that they are informational, not a sign of the problem. This article is being written so you can understand Read More...
Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:56 PM by MichaelPlatts | 2 Comments
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New Networking-related KB articles for October 21 - October 27
I'm sorry for not getting these posted sooner; I have been out of the office on and off over the past several weeks.  I will publish a few of these posts in a row to get caught up again.  Thanks! 955860   High CPU usage occurs for six seconds Read More...
Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008 4:49 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 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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Intermittent file sharing connectivity from various clients to a Windows Server 2008 server
Issue In recent weeks we have seen a number of cases with intermittent file sharing connectivity to Windows Server 2008 servers. I wanted to get this information out so that people who may be experiencing the issue won't have to spend a lot of time tracking Read More...
Posted: Thursday, July 10, 2008 7:03 PM by MichaelPlatts | 19 Comments
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Differences in network performance between Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 and Windows XP/Windows Server 2003
Overview of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 performance improvements This is just an overview; I am including several links with more detail on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 networking. You can take this as far as you like; it is a very Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:29 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Networking-related Knowledge Base Articles for the week ending February 8th
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947732 The data transfer fails when you use a program that uses the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to transfer data on a Windows Server 2008-based computer 2/6/2008 Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947307 Read More...
Posted: Monday, February 18, 2008 8:35 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments
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Latest Windows XP and Windows Vista Networking-related Knowledge Base articles
I hope everyone is having a great holiday season!  Here are the latest KB articles for Windows XP and Windows Vista that relate to networking technologies: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943129 In a Network Access Protection (NAP) architecture, Read More...
Posted: Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:42 PM by MichaelPlatts | 1 Comments
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