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1. How to Disable IPv6 via Group Policy (GPO)
(The System Administrator/Tips & Tricks)

I've already mentioned many time that I'm disabling IPv6 almost on all my servers and workstation. In today days, I really don't see a reason to have it enabled (maybe in next few years, but not now).  ...

2. FAQ Week for NLB: Thursday
(The System Administrator/Clustering and High Availability Blog)

... that work well with NLB include: HTTP & HTTPS (web traffic), FTP (file downloads), POP3/SMTP (email), Terminal Services, and Streaming Media.   Other services such as VPN, NAT and IPv6 technologies ...

3. FAQ Week for NLB: Tuesday
(The System Administrator/Clustering and High Availability Blog)

... balance IPv6, use PowerShell or take advantage of the Extended Affinity timeout functionality until all nodes have been upgraded to Windows Server 2008 R2.   read full article at ...

4. PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Creating Highly Available Workloads
(The System Administrator/Clustering and High Availability Blog)

... Online ahmedbc4Dtc IP Address IP Address 2001:4898:0:fff:200:5efe:157.55.88.0 (2) Online ahmedbc4Dtc IPv6 Tunnel Address IP Address 2001:4898:f0:1000:: (2)                  ...

5. New features in DHCP for Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows 7
(The System Administrator/Knowledge Base)

... IPv6 network as in case of latter exhaustion of addresses is not an issue. Supports DHCP activity logging, allows DHCP Administrators to monitor the configuration changes of the DHCP Servers. DHCP Administrators ...

6. Disable IPv6 over all interfaces and prefer IPv4 to IPv6
(The System Administrator/Tips & Tricks)

Personally, i still prefer use IPv4. In Windows Vista and Windows 2008, IPv6 is enabled by default. I've created a small script to disable IPv6. Here is a content of my DisableIPv6.bat: @Echo off  ...

7. "Outlook Anywhere" and problems with IPv6 in Windows Server 2008
(The System Administrator/Exchange / Lync Server)

It's not a secret, that IPv6 has some "issues". When I've been in Seattle, at last MVP summit, a lot of IT professionals said that, and all of them recommended to disable IPv6 on Windows 2008 or / and ...