Chapter 4

Diagnosing and Repairing Network Connection Problems

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Troubleshooting with Windows Network Diagnostics

Bullet Repairing individual network connections on Windows Server

Bullet Identifying and fixing common network configuration errors

Bullet Troubleshooting with command-line utilities

Bullet Using third-party troubleshooting tools

It never fails: It’s Friday and you’re getting ready to head home. Just as you’re leaving, you get a call that there is a networking issue on one or more of your servers. Maybe your systems are down. Maybe they’re intermittently up and down. Your mission, should you choose to accept it (do you have a choice?), is to find the issue and fix it.

This chapter covers some of the built-in troubleshooting capabilities of the operating system and some of the more common configuration issues you may experience with new systems and older systems.

Using Windows Network Diagnostics

Sometimes the network issue is super obvious, and sometimes it isn’t. For instance, your ...

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