Hey DirectAccess fans, Tom Shinder, prolific IT writer and now Microsoft technical writer, has a new blog called The Edge Man. Check it out and subscribe for ongoing technical tidbits about Unified Access Gateway (UAG) and DirectAccess.   Joe DaviesPrincipal Technical WriterThe Windows Server Networking Documentation Team.. more »

REDMOND, Wash. — March 11, 2010 —According to arecent survey from Microsoft, remote-working programs can benefit employees and employers alike through increased productivity, reduced overhead and happier workers. Sixty percent of respondents to the Microsoft Telework survey — conducted among 3,600 employees in 36 cities nationwide — say they are.. more »

Recently 2X released new version of its excellent 2X ApplicationServer and 2X VirtualDesktopServer products. Version 8 incorporates a number of new and interesting features such as: Managing Client Settings:Administrators will now have the ability to control user settings directly from the management console. Zero-Management Thin Clients:Includes .. more »

One of the most popular requests we've had is to provide a way to view encrypted traffic. The new aims to solve this problem for TLS/SSL traffic. The purpose of encrypting data in the first place is to hide private information from a third party who has intercepted your network traffic. At first the ability to decrypt this traffic might seem like a .. 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...(read more).. more »

In this blog post, I described how you can provide us with ratings and comments for our topics on TechNet and MSDN through the Click to Rate and Give Feedback facility. In February 2010, the following Windows networking topics have been updated based on your comments:           Using Windows Tools to Obtain IPv6 Configuration Information Fi.. more »

The Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Troubleshooting Guide: Diagnostics and Tools has been updated to include information about Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. This guide describes how Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and Internet Protocol (IPsec) works, what the common troubleshooting situations are, and which tools you can u.. more »

The 2010 MVP Global Summit ended last Friday on a beautiful spring day here in the Seattle area. It was great to meet some new MVPs such as Mark Minasi, a prolific IT pro writer, and see some familiar faces, such as Ed Horley and Jennelle Crothers. Ed and Jennelle joined a Windows Server documentation side session and gave us great feedback on ways .. more »

It seems to be feast or famine lately with regard to new Knowledge Base articles to report. We have nothing new this week, but check back again next week! - Mike Platts...(read more).. more »

It's often useful to understand how long it takes for a request to get responded to. This helps you gauge how well a client or server is keeping up. This type of measurement can also be done at different layers; however there are some tricks you'll have to learn. In order to filter on the difference in time, you can use FrameVariable.TimeDelta .. more »

  Are you using DirectAccess or planning a deployment soon? Reduce your support costs and significantly improve your mobile users’ connectivity experience with the newly released Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA). DCA informs mobile...(read more).. more »

There have been a few instances where our customers have asked us how to query the IP route table via SNMP from a remote Windows machine. The following article explains you how to query the list of routes from a remote Windows machine using SNMP and compares...(read more).. more »

SolarWinds, Inc. (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software to more than 88,000 customers worldwide, today announced that it has acquired certain of the assets ofTek-Tools, Inc., a privately-held company with offices inDallas, TX and Chennai, India, with a combination of cash and stockfor up to $42 .. more »

The Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 is now available, which includes monitoring of Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) DirectAccess and its components and measuring user activity for successful DirectAccess client connections.   Joe DaviesPrincipal Technical WriterThe Win.. more »

Hello All! It’s Brett Crane from the Networking teams here at Microsoft. I want to take just a moment to talk about Remote Desktop Gateway (previously called Terminal Services Gateway prior to the release of 2008 R2) and utilization of the “ Log on to…...(read more).. more »

We have had a couple of lean weeks recently with very few new KB articles to report, but that is certainly not the case this time around! Here are the latest networking-related KB articles: 979554 The creator of an SNMP trap notification cannot be identified...(read more).. more »

The Solution Accelerators Team has just released the Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA), a solution accelerator that helps you reduce the cost of supporting DirectAccess. The DCA installs on DirectAccess clients and adds an icon to the notification area of the desktop. With this icon, you can determine your intranet connectivity .. more »

The 2010 MVP Global Summit the week of Feb 16-19 provides an opportunity for Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) to meet with their counterparts in Microsoft product teams. This year, I will be presenting a DirectAccess breakout session and co-presenting a side session that describes the future of Windows content. If you are an MVP coming .. more »

When you configure NLB in unicast mode on virtual machines (guest machines) running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, you may not be able to ping the virtual IP address or the dedicated IP address of the virtual machines. With this problem, if you take...(read more).. more »

You may want to consider modifying the JET database page cache size of your Windows Server 2008 R2 based DHCP server to take advantage of these possible benefits: Increasing the cache size improves active queue length, ACK/sec, and disk reads per second. All requesting clients should get addresses relatively quicker as a result of significant im.. more »