Windows Networking Troubleshooting

© Mike Halsey and Joli Ballew 2017

Mike Halsey and Joli Ballew, Windows Networking Troubleshooting, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3222-4_2

2. Managing Network Connections

Mike Halsey¹  and Joli Ballew²

(1)Gleadless Valley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

(2)Garland, Texas, USA

Computer networks come in all shapes and sizes. A network might consist of only three or four desktop or laptop computers configured as a homegroup, or it could consist of hundreds of workstations and dozens of servers in an enterprise. In this chapter, we’ll discuss how to work with clients after a network has been configured.

Specifically, we’ll focus on understanding and selecting a network profile, seeing the various ways clients will be connecting to wireless networks, ...