Tag Archive: Scalable Network Pack

Check for Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack

I’ve previously blogged about the issues with Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack included in Windows 2003 Service Pack 2. I keep finding servers in my environment with the feature enabled, so I created a short Powershell script to check for SNP features by querying the registry of the remote server. The registry keys involved…

Disable Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack

For the last several months I’ve been having Windows 2003 Server Pack 2 applied to all SQL Server in my envronment in order to bring them inline with a single build and have ran into an issue with Windows Server 2003 Scalable Network Pack (SNP). Windows 2003 SP2 introduces the “helpful feature” of the TCP Chimney…