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New Networking-related KB articles for the week of October 25 – October 31

Here are the most recently published networking-related Knowledge Base articles: 975830 The memory usage of the Dns.exe process keeps increasing after you install hotfix 941672 on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2 and that has the DNS Read More...

Posted: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:37 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments

Filed under: DNS, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7, IPv4

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

Filed under: DNS, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, KB Articles, SMB, FTP

New Networking-related KB articles for the week of July 26 – August 1

This week, I have 4 new KB articles to share: 974080 DirectAccess Workaround for reaching IPv4 address checking sites 971383 Data loss occurs when the Winsock "recv" function returns 0 bytes if both the client-side and the server-side applications Read More...

Posted: Thursday, August 06, 2009 6:40 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments

Filed under: DNS, Windows Server 2003, KB Articles, Windows XP, RRAS, Windows 7, DirectAccess, Winsock, Windows Server 2008 R2

DNS Client Resolver Behavior

The following question comes up from time to time and for various reasons. What is the expected name resolution behavior of the DNS client resolver on Windows XP or Windows Vista? This may be for a single or for multiple network interfaces. So I thought Read More...

Posted: Friday, June 26, 2009 4:29 PM by MichaelPlatts | 5 Comments

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

SNMP Traps in Windows Server

What is an SNMP Trap? It’s nothing but an alert message with abstract information about an event sent from an SNMP agent to its configured SNMP manager. It notifies the administrators about an event that occurred in the SNMP agent. There is separate service Read More...

Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:46 PM by MichaelPlatts | 6 Comments

Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, SNMP, Windows 2000

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

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

Filed under: Windows Server 2003, SMB

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

Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, SMB, Windows 2000

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

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

Ever wanted to quickly check to see if a server or group of servers were registered in WINS?

During the Windows 2000 beta, I worked with the WINS Development group to add the Verify Name Records option to the WINS server. In this post, I will give you a quick overview of how this works, so you can see how it will quickly answer questions in a Read More...

Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:11 PM by MichaelPlatts | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server 2003, WINS, Windows 2000, NetBIOS

Introduction to the Microsoft IPSec Diagnostic Tool

The Microsoft IPSec Diagnostic Tool can help its users troubleshoot IPSec-related issues on a system. It also captures non-IPSec parameters like system data, network interface, group policy, and Windows services like NAP, firewall, RRAS, Wireless, Read More...

Posted: Friday, September 19, 2008 4:58 PM by MichaelPlatts | 2 Comments

Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, IPSec

Don't be THAT guy... Assault by Security Template

Introduction to the “Don’t be THAT guy” blog: I come in to work every day and get calls with these exact scenarios. Of course, the names have been changed to protect the innocent and to keep the guilty from having to find new jobs. The Read More...

Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2008 5:35 PM by MichaelPlatts | 1 Comments

Filed under: DNS, Windows Server 2003

How to test the BITS client on your machine?

Now let’s look at a series of Bitsadmin commands used to create a BITS job and download a file. These commands are used to test the BITS client side and verify it works. 1. Create a download job called bitstest by typing the following in the directory Read More...

Posted: Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:47 PM by MichaelPlatts | 2 Comments

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

IPSEC Domain Isolation: A Test Study - Developing a Plan

This post is second in a series by David Pracht and Steve Martin. To read the first post, click here . Developing a plan... We started by brainstorming about what we might need to consider in the environment. For example – Does the Forest Read More...

Posted: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:51 PM by MichaelPlatts | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, IPSec

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

Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, SMB