Fire Drill definition

In the corporate world, the meaning of fire drill has been modified to suggest that any activity that is a waste of time is called a “fire drill”.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

NIC Binding Order in Windows 2008 Server R2

While working on an Enterprise Vault issue, one of the Symantec KB articles cited improper NIC order as one of the possible causes of the Event ID, among a truckload of other optimizations:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH62307

Most of the Symantec docs were written with Windows 2003 in mind, so the instructions listed were ambiguous at best.

Took some digging, but a Technet Microsoft DNS article squared me away:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd391967(WS.10).aspx

Here's the tl;dr version:

  1. Click Start, click Network, click Network and Sharing Center, and then click Manage Network Connections.
  2. Press the ALT key, click Advanced, and then click Advanced Settings. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
  3. Click the Adapters and Bindings tab, and then, under Connections, click the connection you want to modify.
  4. Under Bindings for <connection name>, select the protocol that you want to move up or down in the list, click the up or down arrow button, and then click OK.





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