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The Windows Firewall Service Fails to start – Logon Permissions
This is part two in my series on Windows Firewall failing to start. In part one , I covered Windows XP and gave an overview of the issues seen in Windows Vista and Windows 7. As discussed, there can be...
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The Windows Firewall Service Fails to start – Registry Permissions
As discussed in my previous posts in this series, there can be several causes that will prevent the Windows Firewall from starting. In this installment, part 3 of 5, I will cover specifics of checking...
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The Windows Firewall Service Fails to start – Checking Privilege Access
The Windows Firewall Service Fails to start – Checking Privilege Access As discussed in the previous posts in this series, there can be several causes that will prevent Windows Firewall from starting....
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The Windows Firewall Service Fails to start – Dependencies
As discussed in the previous posts in this series, there can be several causes that will prevent the Windows Firewall from starting. In this installment I will cover specifics of checking dependencies....
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New Networking-related articles for the week of June 19 – June 25
After a deluge of new networking-related articles last week, I have just one to share this time: 2568645 Firewall exceptions not honored after cluster failover - Mike Platts...(read more)
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New Networking-related articles for the week of June 26 – July 2
Like last week, I have only one new article to share this time: 2524478 The network location profile changes from "Domain" to "Public" in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 - Mike Platts...(read more)
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The Network Connection Status Icon
Have you ever wondered how Windows knows you’re connected to the Internet? You may have noticed the over the network icon by the clock, have you ever wondered what happens in the background? This blog...
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Deployment: Windows Firewall and Group Policy
General Deployment information Because I support the Windows Firewall I often get asked for guidance on deploying it. David Bishop wrote a nice white paper on deploying the Windows Firewall so I won’t...
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Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) CPU assignment tips and tricks
Hello First a small introduction. I am Marco Cancillo and have been working at Microsoft since 2013 as a Sr. Support Engineer in the western Europe CTS Network team.Within my work I have seen...
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Backup and Restore DHCP with Failover Configuration
[This post comes to us courtesy of Vithalprasad Gaitonde from Product Group and Gopalakrishnan Krishnan from Global Windows Networking Support] The DHCP service has evolved with its own in-built...
View ArticleCROSS POST: LBFO Dynamic Teaming mode may drop send packets in Windows Server...
Here’s a blog done by Ajay Sarkaria that we felt needed to also be on the Networking site due to the nature and the popularity of the article. So we are going to cross post it here. LBFO Dynamic...
View ArticleCROSS POST: Fix: Loading DNS zones takes a long time on a Windows Server 2008...
Here’s another blog by Ajay Sarkaria that we felt needed to also be on the Networking site due to the nature and the popularity of the article. So we are going to cross post it here. Fix: Loading DNS...
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Enterprise Gateway Configuration for End-to-End validation of HNV Gateway...
This post will help you to configure Enterprise or Physical Infrastructure Gateways using Windows RRAS to validate the End-to-E2E data path for Gateway connections with SDN Private Cloud that you have...
View ArticleAnnouncing: New Transport Advancements in the Anniversary Update for Windows...
Christian Huitema, Daniel Havey, Matt Olson, Osman Ertugay, Praveen Balasubramanian TCP based communication is used ubiquitously in devices from IoT to cloud servers. Performance improvements in TCP...
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How to prevent accidental DNS Zone deletions in Windows Server
My name is Ajay Sarkaria and I am a Supportability Program Manager at Microsoft. We have been seeing support volumes where administrators while performing daily tasks may accidentally delete a DNS Zone...
View ArticleAn Update on Windows TCP AutoTuningLevel
Daniel Havey, Praveen Balasubramanian Like all modern operating systems Windows has receive window auto-tuning to dynamically adjust the receive buffer size to the throughput and latency of the link....
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Network Virtualization in the Windows Server 2016 Software Defined Networking...
By Jason Messer, Senior Program Manager Using VXLAN for Encapsulation and OVSDB for Policy Distribution Windows Server 2016 is the perfect platform for building your Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)...
View ArticleDynamic DNS registration process can cause queue build up and failures
Hey Folks! Ajay Sarkaria here with new information on the changes in dynamic DNS registrations. In the past, we have had many customers who call Microsoft support with scenarios where dynamic DNS...
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Troubleshoot Configuring SDN RAS Gateway VPN Bandwidth Settings in Virtual...
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...
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How to find the SDN gateway local address for BGP peering in Windows Server 2016
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...
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