May 2, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Reserved Ports on Windows 2008 R2

Sometimes you will run into an issue where an application requires a specific port(s) and another app or service will grab them and cause that app or service to fail.  In Windows 200 and 2003 you could resolve this issue by adding a Multi string registry entry in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\tcpip\Parameters called ReservedPorts and add in the exceptions and reboot and all was well. This is no... read more