Quick Fix : DNS Forwarders SBS 2011 Essentials

May 4, 2012 by 6 Comments

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Update – This post will also apply to Windows Server 2012 Essentials

I have seen a number of posts on the forums about people who are having trouble with DNS Resolution on SBS 2011 Essentials.

Sean Daniel posted an excellent explanation of the how’s and whys of Essentials and DNS, and why the Server has a Dynamic IP… <shudder>

Anyway, knowing why something does something, and not being happy with it doing it, are two separate things.

So, if you want to force your DNS Forwarders to be something other than your Default Gateway, or, to use something else instead, you can build a simple scheduled task to do this.

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Quick Fix: AFD.sys / AFD Service is missing Windows XP

November 25, 2011 by 42 Comments

I had a customer email me yesterday with the following symptoms…

Symptoms

This particular client is located in France, so a site visit is a little tricky. Luckily they had a second computer, and we could talk through Skype. I did some basic connectivity tests like ipconfig, the IP was reported as 0.0.0.0 with a subnet mask of 0.0.0.0. Read more of this post

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