Chapter 4
Diagnosing and Repairing Network Connection Problems
IN THIS CHAPTER
Troubleshooting with Windows Network Diagnostics
Repairing individual network connections on Windows Server
Identifying and fixing common network configuration errors
Troubleshooting with command-line utilities
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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