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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)
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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)
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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 | (Comments Off)
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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 | (Comments Off)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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New Networking-related KB articles for the week of May 3 - May 9
951088   Error message when you use SMB-to-NFS gateway software that exposes mounted NFS shared folders as SMB shared folders on a Windows Server 2008-based computer: "Stop 0x0000007E" 951016   Description of User Account Control and Read More...
Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008 9:10 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)
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New Networking-related KB articles for the week of April 19-25
Here are the latest Networking-related KB articles: 948927   Error message when you use SmartCard-only authentication to log on to a Windows Vista-based client computer in a wireless network environment: "Cannot connect to <SSID>: Please Read More...
Posted: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:29 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)
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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)
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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)
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How to benefit from Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution.
In a nutshell, Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) resolves single label names (like: COMPUTER1 ), on the local subnet, when DNS devolution is unable to resolve the name. This is helpful if you are in an Ad-Hoc network scenario, or in a scenario Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:48 PM by Joel-E-O | 1 Comments
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Windows Wireless and Cisco ACS Machine Access Restriction don’t always play nice together
Recently, I have been seeing a number of customers reporting problems attempting to implement a specific feature of Cisco's Access Control Server (ACS) 4.0. This feature is called Machine Access Restriction (MAR). The issue that arises is that this feature Read More...
Posted: Friday, March 21, 2008 4:21 PM by Clay Seymour [MSFT] | (Comments Off)
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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 | (Comments Off)
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Windows Vista Networking-related Knowledge Base Articles for the week ending February 1st
We have just 1 Windows Vista article this week: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945399 A network adapter is automatically reinstalled after you uninstall the network adapter in Device Manager on a Windows Vista-based computer 1/28/2008 Windows Vist Read More...
Posted: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:42 PM by MichaelPlatts | (Comments Off)
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