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Packet Fragment: Windows Blocking an SSID

November 27, 2019

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Recently I got brought in on a ticket where the colleague couldn’t connect to our wireless network. Even manually adding the SSID to the computer was met with an error of “Your network administrator has blocked you from connecting to this network.” But why would Windows block an SSID? As I said in a previous […]

When Microsoft DHCP Server Lies

January 2, 2019

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| Blog, Microsoft, War Stories, windows

The Problem Recently at work, we had an issue where one of our guest networks wasn’t allowing new hosts onto the network. After some investigation, it appeared that we had simply run out of available IP addresses in the DHCP pool. We added 100 addresses and thought we were done until we noticed that within […]