Disabling IPv6 via Group Policy

IPv6 is the future! Well, not exactly. While IPv6 is pretty important to internet traffic, because we are legitimately running out of addresses in the IPv4 world, a company's internal network is a different story. I have heard the warnings about moving to IPv6 for many years, and yet it is extremely rare that I run into any network that is actually using it inside of their buildings. Why is that? Because it is just not necessary in most cases. IPv6 has always been touted as having enough address space so that every device in the entire world could have its own globally-unique IPv6 address, but the implication in that statement is that companies would actually allow their devices to be connected directly to ...

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