Fixing Network Problems

In a perfect world, networks would never fail, no one would ever have to change a network card, IP addresses would be automatically assigned and never change, and no one would ever have to try to troubleshoot a network connectivity problem. Well, IPv6 helps with some of this, but we’re afraid that there’s still a long way to go until we reach network nirvana. Until we do, however, there’s the Fix My Network Wizard in SBS.

We have to say right up front that when we heard the name for this new wizard, we were more than a little concerned. It sounded a lot like something that you might run on a home PC—usually with less than optimal results. But then we remembered that for SBS 2003, the SBS team had already created one of the ...

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