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Best practice analyser report shows: Task Offload

Can anyone explain in lamens terms what this means? should i action this or just leave it?

Task Offload

Task Offload is set to enabled. To disable Task Offload, click Start, and in the Search box type "command." in the
results, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator. At the command prompt, run the the
following command:
netsh int ip set global taskoffload=disabled
For more information, see:
Information about the TCP Chimney Offload, Receive Side Scaling, and Network Direct Memory Access features in
Windows Server 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=189029
Mail flow to certain domains does not work when you run Exchange Server 2007 on a Windows Server 2008-based
computer
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=189028

zon7

Task offload is a way windows have to put some calculations of the tcp into the network card. Just to free some cpu. You can enable it or no. Just your choice

resolver1

ASKER

Which questions did you delete? All the "Best practice analyser report shows" questions are seperate questions! They have come back from Windows BPA (Best practice analyser report) which i seperated into different questions to break the issues down for different people to answer depending on the topic.

resolver1

ASKER

zon7 does it free up much CPU ?

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resolver1

ASKER

Thaks for your reply TheTime. I'll leave it as is then. Thanks for your reply.

Thanks Rindi.