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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 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 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

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

Windows Server 2008 SP1 or Windows Vista SP1 multiprocessor systems with some antivirus software may run out of resources (KB961775)

We want to try to get the word out about an issue that has turned into a frequent support call generator for our team here at Microsoft. There is a potential problem on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 multi-CPU systems that have software installed Read More...

Posted: Friday, August 07, 2009 5:43 PM by MichaelPlatts | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, AFD

New Networking-related KB articles for the week of July 19 – July 25

I’m trying to resurrect this series of sharing the latest KB articles related to Windows networking technologies. I hope you find this to be helpful! There are only 2 such KB articles this week: 969632 Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) does Read More...

Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:13 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, KB Articles, Windows XP, RRAS, BITS, L2TP

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

Missing Network Map under Network and Sharing Center in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 introduced many new and exciting enhancements for improving and changing Personal and Enterprise computing. The introduction of the Network and Sharing Center, improvements in the Security Center and the Network Map Read More...

Posted: Friday, June 19, 2009 5:50 PM by MichaelPlatts | 4 Comments

Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Network Discovery

Spurious WINS Event ID 4224 on Windows Server 2008

I recently fielded a call from a customer who was seeing Event ID 4224 errors on a Windows Server 2008 machine. The machine hosted DNS but also hosted WINS. It was noted that after a restart of the WINS Server service that the “Event 4224 – WINS encountered Read More...

Posted: Friday, June 05, 2009 5:18 PM by MichaelPlatts | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, WINS

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

Error citing a Remote Access Policy problem prevents connection via Terminal Services Gateway

Hello All! It’s Brett Crane from the Networking teams here at Microsoft. Today I wanted to take a few minutes to talk a little about an issue that we have found regarding Terminal Services Gateway. The problem that we have seen may occur when a TSG client Read More...

Posted: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:24 PM by MichaelPlatts | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, TS Gateway

Disabling VLAN tagging in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 Server Core

Last month, one of my colleagues wrote an article to share his experience with changing a setting on Server Core ( http://blogs.technet.com/networking/archive/2009/01/08/configuring-advanced-network-card-settings-in-windows-server-2008-server-core.aspx Read More...

Posted: Friday, March 13, 2009 7:57 PM by MichaelPlatts | 2 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, VLAN, Hyper-V

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

Why is my network detected as “unknown” by Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008?

A question that has come up from time to time is how and why Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 detect a network as “unknown”. I hope the following explanation is helpful. Network Location Awareness or NLA is the service that determines what kind of Read More...

Posted: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:18 PM by MichaelPlatts | 8 Comments

Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, NLA, Network Location Awareness