• Why doesn't Windows 2008 server negotiate TCP MSS smaller than 536 bytes?

    Hi, In today's blog, I'll talk about an MTU issue that occurs on Windows Vista onwards (Vista/7/2008/2008 R2). One of our customers reported that their SMTP server (running on Windows 2008) was failing to send e-mails to certain remote SMTP servers...
  • Why can't we access NLB Clusters from remote subnets?

    Hi there, In today's blog, I would like to talk about NLB cluster access problems that our customers experience most of the time... When Microsoft NLB cluster operates in multicast mode, in certain scenarios you may not be able to access the...
  • Why does anonymous PIPE access fail on Windows Vista, 2008, Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2

    Hi there, In this blog post, I would like to talk about a named pipe access issue on Windows 2008 that I had to deal with recently. One of our customers was having problems in accessing named pipes anonymously on Windows 2008 and therefore we were...