Windows Networking support team and Product team blog
A few days back, I wrote a blog post about some issues being faced by Software Defined Networking (SDN) customers. The issue was specific to changing VPN bandwidth settings in Windows Server 2016. You can read more about that issue and the solution here. Another area where we have seen customers struggle is finding out the… Read more
I wanted to share some of my experiences with debugging Windows Server 2016 Software Defined Networking (SDN) related customer issues. These issues are related to SDN RAS Gateways.If you’ve deployed Software Defined Networking (SDN) in Windows Server 2016 Datacenter by using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), you might have encountered problems configuring the RAS Gateway… Read more
Introduction Microsoft® Windows® Server 2012 R2 industry standard IKEv2 tunnel for VPN connectivity (both point-to-site and site-to-site). This enables customers with existing third party VPN devices to easily deploy the Windows Server 2012 R2 VPN gateway and interoperate with these devices to perform branch-site networking. This document covers the working configurations for some of the… Read more
Here are the latest networking-related articles I have to share this week: 2470853 IGMP v1 membership report packets are sent to incorrect destinations on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista 2487035 “0x00000027” Stop error when you try to access earlier versions of shared files that are hosted on a remote… Read more
Happy New Year! At long last, I’m back at work and armed with the latest content. Here are the latest networking-related articles for the past few weeks: 2440591 MS10-099: Vulnerability in Routing and Remote Access could allow elevation of privilege 2470540 The host record of a computer that has a static IP address and that… Read more
Here are the most recently published networking-related articles: 978886 MS10-058: Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP could allow elevation of privilege 982214 MS10-054: Vulnerabilities in SMB Server could allow remote code execution 982316 An update is available for the Windows Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) 982931 Some IP addresses on the network adapter are lost after you restart… Read more
Here are the latest networking-related Knowledge Base articles for the week of February 28 through March 6: 980027 A Windows Server 2008 domain controller cannot allocate new ports when Server for NIS is running 978856 Error message when you try to start the Server service in Windows Server 2008 R2: “The network path was not… Read more
Here are the most recently published networking-related Knowledge Base articles for the week of February 21 through February 27: 979272 FIX: Communication over an IPsec connection is broken unexpectedly when a client reconnects to the IPsec server within four minutes after the client restarts 977336 You cannot migrate or import the Hyper-V role and the… Read more
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 run on the same computer that is running Windows Server 2003 973839 32-bit applications do not… Read more
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 not start in Windows XP, and you receive a message in the system event… Read more