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Announcing Zero Trust DNS Private Preview

tojens on May 02 2024 06:00 AM
Enabling domain-name-based lockdown of Windows for Zero Trust deployments in future versions of Windows
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Deployment Considerations for Windows ZTDNS Client

tojens on May 02 2024 06:00 AM
A follow up to the ZTDNS private preview announcement explaining some considerations for future ZTDNS deployments
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Windows DNS Client Survey

AditiPatange on Apr 25 2024 06:00 AM
We want to hear from you about your DNS deployments to gauge interest in different DNS technologies
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Three Reasons Why You Should Not Use iPerf3 on Windows

JamesKehr on Apr 18 2024 12:10 PM
This article will explain why you should not use iPerf3 on Windows for synthetic network benchmarking and testing. Follo...
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Windows 11 Plans to Expand CLAT Support

tojens on Mar 07 2024 07:00 AM
Announcing what's next for Windows 11 + IPv6 transition tech
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IPv6 Transition Technology Survey

tojens on Feb 06 2024 06:00 AM
Sharing a customer signal survey to gauge interest in various approaches to IPv6 transition technology
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SDN: Migrating from Rest Name to Static IP | Remove worries of DNS!

Kyle Bisnett on Feb 02 2024 09:10 AM
As an SDN administrator for HCI and Windows Server, you may have experienced issues with Dynamic DNS registration of Net...
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Introducing DNR support for Windows Insiders

AditiPatange on Oct 25 2023 10:00 AM
Instructions for enabling DNR in Windows Insiders to seamlessly deploy encrypted DNS
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NCSI Change Notification

JamesKehr on Jul 05 2023 03:21 PM
A recent change may cause your Windows systems from detecting an Internet connection.
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Network ATC management in Windows Admin Center

Dan Cuomo on Jul 05 2023 10:13 AM
Network ATC continues to be the preferred method to deploy host networking for our Azure Stack HCI customers. For most c...
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Migrate an existing cluster to Network ATC

Dan Cuomo on Jun 09 2023 09:38 AM
Network ATC has led to HUGE reductions in customer support cases which means increased uptime for your business applicat...
5,346

SDN + AKS 3-15-23 Updates and Features

Kyle Bisnett on Mar 16 2023 09:28 AM
Support for leveraging existing SDN vNETs, multiple vNETs for your Target clusters to support isolation, and a new AKS H...
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Physical switch requirement changes for Azure Stack HCI

Basel_Kablawi on Mar 15 2023 10:15 AM
Read on to see the latest updates to the Azure Stack HCI physical network switch requirements!
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Azure Stack HCI: What's new for Software Defined Networking (SDN) with WAC v2211

Kyle Bisnett on Jan 17 2023 12:50 PM
Today is an exciting day as we share with each of you the extensive new features and improvements for SDN in Windows Adm...
5,840

Survey: Accelerated Networking

Basel_Kablawi on Jan 06 2023 03:10 PM
We want to hear from you regarding Accelerated Networking!
7,982

Network HUD: November 2022 content update has arrived!

Dan Cuomo on Nov 15 2022 06:01 AM
In our first article we introduced Network HUD as a new feature that proactively identifies and remediates operational n...
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Introducing Network HUD for Azure Stack HCI

Dan Cuomo on Nov 15 2022 06:00 AM
We’re excited to announce the release of Network HUD - A new feature that proactively identifies and remediates operatio...
6,448

General Availability for SDN integration with AKS on Azure Stack HCI

Kyle Bisnett on Oct 12 2022 10:05 AM
Our SDN and AKS engineering teams are so excited to announce General Availability to fuel our customer’s desire to enabl...
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LEDBAT Background Data Transfer for Windows

Daniel Havey on Sep 30 2022 08:50 AM
LEDBAT is the background data transfer product built into the Windows networking stack and recommended by the Windows Da...
7,452

Balance Performance in MsQuic and XDP

huanyi on Sep 16 2022 03:36 PM
Improving performance has always been a major goal for MsQuic. Recently, we have put in a lot of effort into getting ult...
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NIC Certification updates in the Windows Server Catalog

Dan Cuomo on Aug 31 2022 08:38 AM
Read on to see how we’re simplifying the structure of Windows Server NIC certifications into a "role-based" structure!
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Troubleshooting SDN Windows Admin Center Certificates

Kyle Bisnett on Aug 30 2022 02:58 PM
If you are receiving "The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secur...
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Az Stack HCI: Software Defined Networking (SDN) extensions reach General Availability for WAC

Kyle Bisnett on Aug 25 2022 10:31 AM
SDN Extensions reach general availability for WAC: The rumors are true - SDN Infrastructure, Network Security Groups, Lo...
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DNS over TLS available to Windows Insiders

tojens on Jul 13 2022 10:00 AM
Instructions for enabling DNS over TLS support for Windows DNS client
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Open Source XDP for Windows

nibanks on May 24 2022 09:56 AM
We're bringing the latest in network acceleration technology to Windows, and it's open source!
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Aligning on mDNS: ramping down NetBIOS name resolution and LLMNR

tojens on Apr 22 2022 09:00 AM
Describing our first step toward turning NetBIOS name resolution and LLMNR off by default
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mDNS in the Enterprise

JamesKehr on Apr 04 2022 01:36 PM
mDNS is everywhere these days because it is simple, easy to build, and user friendly. Everyone in the tech industry love...
9,953

Troubleshooting HTTP/3 in http.sys

tojens on Apr 01 2022 09:00 AM
A review of some common HTTP/3 deployment challenges and how to address them

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tojens
in Announcing Zero Trust DNS Private Preview on May 03 2024 01:57 PM
@Kenneth Meyer-Lassen your thinking is spot on. Imagine an Intune device receiving the client cert it needs to present to the Protective DNS server during the TLS handshake to establish the DoH connection, along with an expected cert in the server chain so the client can detect server impersonation ...
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Kenneth Meyer-Lassen
in Announcing Zero Trust DNS Private Preview on May 03 2024 05:15 AM
Can you elaborate on how the Protective DNS Servers should be published to the Work from Anywhere (without VPN or DA) devices?? I would expect something like Dns over Https published through some kind of application delivery controller (requires permitted fixed IP address), that requires a client au...
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Karl_Wester-Ebbinghaus
in Windows DNS Client Survey on Apr 30 2024 04:45 PM
Thank you for setting this up @AditiPatange
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rjmcmahon
in Three Reasons Why You Should Not Use iPerf3 on Windows on Apr 29 2024 11:06 AM
For completeness. It looks like it's about 40K writes per second on the windows machine. About 85K writes per second with a linux machine. And about 135K writes per second with a Mac M3. These should scale, at least somewhat, with using more cores.Note: A windows native tool that measured writes per...
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rjmcmahon
in Three Reasons Why You Should Not Use iPerf3 on Windows on Apr 29 2024 09:15 AM
Here's an iperf 2 run using local host which should give a measure of CPU performanceC:\Users\rebec\Downloads>iperf-2.2.n-win64.exe -c localhost -e -i 1 -P 1------------------------------------------------------------Client connecting to localhost, TCP port 5001 with pid 13496 (1/0 flows/load)Write ...
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