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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 | (Comments Off)

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

New Networking-related KB articles for the week of June 14 - June 20

952790 An application is unable to obtain an exclusive lock to a volume after the system runs for several hours in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 953270 After a Windows Vista-based computer resumes from hibernation, Read More...

Posted: Monday, June 30, 2008 9:41 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, KB Articles, 802.1x

Steps to move a DHCP database from a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to another Windows Server 2008 machine

The DHCP database can be moved or migrated from a Windows Server 2003 server to a Windows Server 2008 server, or from one Windows Server 2008 server to another. The information below details the necessary steps. Export the DHCP database from a server Read More...

Posted: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:42 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, DHCP Server, Windows Server 2003

New Networking-related KB articles for the week of June 7 - June 13

948745 MS08-034: Vulnerability in WINS could allow elevation of privilege 951376 MS08-030: Vulnerability in Bluetooth stack could allow remote code execution 953979 Device Manager may not show any devices and Network Connections may Read More...

Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 8:47 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, KB Articles, Bluetooth, WINS

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 | (Comments Off)

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

New Networking-related KB articles for the week of May 24 - May 30

949429 The virtual IP address of a Windows Server 2008 NLB cluster is bound to the NetBIOS host name of a particular server or of multiple servers 947028 How to restrict SSTP connections to a specific IP address in Windows Server 2008 950826 Read More...

Posted: Monday, June 09, 2008 5:29 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, NLB, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, KB Articles, IPSec, SSTP

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)

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, TS Gateway, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, KB Articles, DNS

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

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, DNS

New Networking-related KB articles for the week of April 26 - May 2

Here are the latest Networking-related Knowledge Base articles: 951764 How to enable the port scalability feature for RPC proxies and for applications in Windows Server 2008 950499 You may be unable to use the "netsh interface" Read More...

Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008 10:48 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)

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

New Networking-related KB articles for the week of April 12-18

Here are the latest Networking-related KB articles: 948505 The gethostbyname function unexpectedly returns the IP addresses in numeric order on a Windows Vista-based computer or on a Windows Server 2008-based computer 951422 The WTSQuerySessionInformation Read More...

Posted: Monday, April 28, 2008 5:58 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)

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

New Networking-related KB articles for the week of April 5-11

Here are the most recent networking-related KB articles: 951008 No firewall is enabled after you upgrade a Windows Server 2003-based NAT/Basic Firewall router to Windows Server 2008 951005 The Network Policy Server may not log successful authentication Read More...

Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 2:37 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, KB Articles

New update available for Windows Server 2003 SP2 systems to disable Scalable Networking Pack features

As you may know, Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 included the Scalable Networking Pack (or SNP) which allowed for increased performance in many situations by allowing some TCP functionality to be handled by the network driver and network adapter Read More...

Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:07 PM by MichaelPlatts | 2 Comments

Filed under: Scalable Networking Pack, Windows Server 2003

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 | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, SMB, Windows Server 2003, BITS, KB Articles

Windows Server 2003 Networking-related Knowledge Base Articles for the week ending February 1st

Here are recent KB articles that relate to networking technologies in Windows Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945466 You receive a Stop error message when a computer that is using a TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE)-enabled adapter is running Read More...

Posted: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:51 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Scalable Networking Pack, Windows Server 2003, KB Articles, RRAS

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 | (Comments Off)

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