If you use Microsoft DHCP in your environment, check out our guide about a great new feature in Windows Server 2012 for enabling high availability for DHCP services: Understand and Deploy DHCP Failover . DHCP failover enables you to share IPv4 scope...

Hyper-V Virtual Switch in Windows Server 2012 R2 has a lot of great new features that provide security, performance, and compatibility improvements. One of the best improvements is that the switch now peacefully coexists with third party forwarding...

Hi, In addition to several new features that have been added to IPAM in Server 2012 R2 Preview ( What's New ) we now have an IPAM Virtual Lab available for Windows Server 2012. Check out Managing Your Network Infrastructure with IP Address Management...

You might already know that Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview is now available - you can download it from the Microsoft TechNet Evaluation Center at Download Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview - so I wanted to let you know that we are also releasing some early...

The Windows Server Networking TechCenter is now redesigned to help you accomplish your networking goals with the right documentation for the Windows Server products that you use. You can find the new TechCenter at http://aka.ms/mj4ecs If you know...

The Core Network Companion Guide: Deploying IP Addressing for Branch Offices is live on the Web and available for download in the Microsoft Download Center (MS DLC) at the following locations: Web: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn151292.aspx...

I've come across some great content about Hyper-V networking, and I'd like to share some links with you. If you're interested in Hyper-V networking features, you might enjoy some of the highlighted community content in this article. Dutch Hyper-V community...

Hi there, The IPAM team and I have just published design, deployment, and operations guidance for IP Address Management (IPAM) in Windows Server 2012. Check out these guides, and the topics available in each: IPAM Overview : Is a brief description...

The Windows Server 2012 Core Network Companion Guide: Group Policy Deployment is now published: On the Web at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj899807.aspx In Word format in the Microsoft Download Center at http://www.microsoft.com...

No, you haven't entered a time warp - this blog post is about a guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 - and not for Windows Server 2012. This guide was previously published only in HTML format, but now you can download the Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Network...

The Windows Server® 2012 Core Network Companion Guide: Deploying BranchCache Hosted Cache Mode, which was published last week in HTML format on the Web, is now published in Word format for download at the Microsoft Download Center, at http://aka.ms...

The Windows Server 2012 Core Network Companion Guide: Deploying BranchCache Hosted Cache Mode , is now live on the Web at http://aka.ms/i2wfpz This deployment guide shows you how to build on your core network by deploying BranchCache in hosted cache...

The BranchCache Frequently Asked Questions topic is now live in the TechNet Wiki at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14309.branchcache-frequently-asked-questions.aspx.

The 802.1X Wireless paper that I mentioned in my previous post, the Windows Server 2012 Core Network Companion Guide: Deploying Password-based 802.1X Authenticated Wireless Access , is now available for download in Word format from the Microsoft Download...

It's important to deploy wireless technologies in such a way that they provide both security and ease of use for people that are connecting wirelessly to your network. When you deploy wireless by using 802.1X authentication with Protected Extensible...

If you like to write scripts to accomplish administrative tasks for networking in Windows Server 2012, you might like this new topic that provides links to the command references for all of the Windows PowerShell commands for networking technologies:...

Over the last week, a lot of new QoS content published that provides guidance on how and when to configure QoS, Data Center Bridging (DCB), and other technologies on your physical or virtual network. Following is a list of content that is updated or new...

The topic "What's New in Hyper-V Virtual Switch" is now available at http://aka.ms/bf0hkd . This topic provides information on new features for manageability, security, isolation, visibility, and scalability to provide more effective Hyper-V deployment...

Hi there - Network Subsystem Performance Tuning guidance is now available in the Windows Server 2012 Technical Library, at http://aka.ms/iwooe5 . This content assists you with performance tuning the network subsystem, particularly for network intensive...

The new BranchCache Deployment Guide is now available for download at http://aka.ms/gwyms2 , and includes instructions for using many new BranchCache features while you deploy the technology. As I mentioned in my blog post Highlighting BranchCache...

I am proud to announce the publication and availability of Understanding IPv6, 3 rd Edition ( Amazon page ). This book is the culmination of eighteen months of work outlining, gathering information, preparing drafts, creating figures, working through...

Hi there Just thought I'd let you know there are two new articles available for those of you who are interested in 802.1X Authenticated Wireless Access. Both articles are in the Windows Server 2012 Technical Library at the following locations: ...

Hi there - Using Windows PowerShell commands in Windows Server 2012 for basic administration and networking tasks can save a lot of time. This is true not only because you can script the tasks for application on multiple computers, but you also save...

The Windows Server® 2012 Hyper-V Network Virtualization Survival Guide is now published at http://aka.ms/gakmzi Windows Server 2012 enables you to create an agile, multi-tenant cloud on top of your existing infrastructure by virtualizing the network...

For Windows Server® 2008 R2, BranchCache was introduced to help you reduce WAN bandwidth usage by client computers that accessed content, such as Web pages and file shares, on content servers in remote main offices. With that release, as with BranchCache...