One small issue that I faced already a few times, is that the Windows TCP/IP stack does not seem to be able to properly resolve a DNS hostname (FQDN) despite that nslookup returns a perfectly fine result. The same system was running fine in the same network under Windows 7.
The solution was to disable IPv6 on the network adapters of the system. This is just another example of strange issues with IPv6 that find their origin in the fact that the IPv6 code is in fact used very intensively throughout the Windows components. That is also the reason why Microsoft recommends against disabling IPv6. Well.. it helped me anyway, and was easier than configuring IPv6 addresses for my DNS server :).
