{"id":8769,"date":"2007-01-31T07:36:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2007-01-31T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"network-diagnostics-technologies-in-windows-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8769","title":{"rendered":"Network Diagnostics Technologies in Windows Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=1698e42b-03fd-4cd9-b568-d948de55b0f8&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">document<\/a> on some new network diagnostics\/troubleshooting tools and methodologies included in Vista.\u00a0 They say:<\/p>\n<p><em>With Windows Vista, Microsoft introduces two new tools designed to make diagnosing network problems easier: the Network System Icon and the Network Diagnostics Framework (NDF). With these tools, users can troubleshoot and resolve common network connectivity issues\u2014such as Internet connectivity, file sharing, wireless networking, and the like\u2014themselves, potentially reducing support costs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So &quot;<em>users can troubleshoot and resolve common &#8230; issues<\/em>&quot;.\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 As an administrator, I hated &quot;have a go heros&quot;.\u00a0 They caused more damage than the original problem.\u00a0 If there&#8217;s a problem I wanted Helpdesk to know about it.\u00a0 That way if they or my server team spotted a trend then we could nail the actual cause of the problem &#8230; and disembowel the Superman wannabe.<\/p>\n<p>These tools may prove handy for home users and for IT staff, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released a document on some new network diagnostics\/troubleshooting tools and methodologies included in Vista.\u00a0 They say: With Windows Vista, Microsoft introduces two new tools designed to make diagnosing network problems easier: the Network System Icon and the Network Diagnostics Framework (NDF). With these tools, users can troubleshoot and resolve common network connectivity issues\u2014such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Network Diagnostics Technologies in Windows Vista&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}