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New Networking-related KB articles for the week of October 11 – October 17

Here are the latest networking-related Knowledge Base articles: 973509 The advanced security settings for Windows Firewall that you deploy by using a Group Policy object (GPO) are not displayed in Windows Vista or in Windows 2008 975212 When you use a Read More...

Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:13 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments

Filed under: DNS, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, KB Articles, Windows Firewall, VPN

Stopping the Windows Authenticating Firewall Service and the boot time policy

Lately, I have been seeing a number of issues/concerns from people where they manually stop the Firewall service and lose connectivity to the machine. They always seem surprised when I explain that it is by design. A little History In versions of Windows Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:45 PM by MichaelPlatts | 3 Comments

Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Firewall

Windows Firewall service starts automatically after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3

Installation of Windows XP Service Pack 3 results in the Windows Firewall service being set to Automatic startup, regardless of its previous startup setting. After installing Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, you may be surprised to see that both the Windows Read More...

Posted: Friday, September 19, 2008 7:42 PM by MichaelPlatts | 12 Comments

Filed under: Windows XP, Windows Firewall, XP SP3

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

Overview of IPSec Rules in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

IPSec is becoming increasingly popular and as a result we are seeing more support calls on it. I wanted to give a brief overview of the IPSec wizard in the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security as well as provide some additional references. Read More...

Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:20 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, IPSec, Windows Firewall

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 | 0 Comments

Filed under: DNS, Windows Server 2008, DHCP Server, RRAS, NAP, Windows Firewall

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