On Windows Server 2008 (and Vista/Windows 7) there are three types of firewall profiles—Domain, Private, and Public. You can set a Firewall state(rules) for each profile and each firewall profile applies depending on your network location. This let you set different firewall rules depending on your network location:     Microsoft basically defines these as: […]

You can test the connection speed to your site any number of ways including doing a trace route, or “tracert”. The simplest and quickets way is to open a command prompt and use “tracert”   From the command prompt type “tracert appliedi.net” The tracert will ping each router between your computer and our servers. If before […]

Since 1980 IPv4 addresses have been in risk of exhaustion and the requirements for more IP addresses have been greatly increased and enforced.  Due to the nature of our services and the value of IP addressing resources in our environment, large-allocation requests can and should be fulfilled directly with ARIN (the American Registry for Internet […]

“Ping” can be useful to troubleshoot network connectivity quickly. Ping will let you send a request to a server to say “Please reply” and the server will send you a sort of “Hello.” Think Ping > Pong. In Windows Vista, it is much the same as previous Windows OSes. From a run command you can […]

Windows Vista must have the firewall configured to allow other computers to ping you. By default it will look as though you have no network connectivity when someone pings you, but really you just need to enable "echo requests".To enable this, click the Start button (bottom left of screen), type gpedit.msc in the search box and open […]

 Windows firewall comes preconfigured to block all incoming connections, which means that incoming ICMP connections (ping) are also blocked. For proper server monitoring and other testing, ICMP should be allowed servers.  Unlike WindowsXP there is no option to enable this from the graphical user interface (GUI), so this has to be run from the command line. […]

When you make changes to DNS you will notice that sometimes your computer is caching the old DNS information. This article is to help you speed up the process if the issue lies on your computer specifically. In Vista, you may get an error "The requested operation requires elevation." when you try to use "ipconfig /flushDNS" such […]

Should it become necessary to change the IP address of your server, please follow the following steps.   Open Network Connections by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Network and Internet, clicking Network and Sharing Center, and then clicking Manage network connections.   Right-click the connection that you want to change, and then click Properties.  If you are prompted for an […]

You can quickly test your network connection by pinging some outside websites, such as “ping www.appliedi.net” for example. Click start > run > type “CMD” [hit enter]     In the command prompt type “ping www.appliedi.net” or any domain such as “ping google.com” If you are able to ping outside websites, but simply can not […]

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