Tip of the Day: To IPv6 or to not IPv6...

Today’s Tip…

Previously there has been a lot of unofficial and sometimes conflicting information regarding IPv6 settings and Microsoft’s official stance regarding disabling IPv6, however this has now been addressed and we now have official documentation that explains Microsoft’s stance and other related information regarding IPv6 and whether customers should be disabling this setting or not.

Reference: “Ask Premier Field Engineering - A 5 Second Boot Optimization If You’ve Disabled IPv6 on Windows Client and Server by setting DisabledComponents to 0xFFFFFFFF”

https://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/09/15/a-5-second-boot-optimization-if-you-ve-disabled-ipv6-on-windows-client-and-server-by-setting-disabledcomponents-to-0xffffffff.aspx