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Networking Blog

The Official Blog Site of the Windows Core Networking Team at Microsoft

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What's QUIC?

JamesKehr on Aug 25 2021 06:58 AM
This is a quick discussion, all puns intended, about why QUIC is important to the modern internet.
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Enabling HTTP/3 support on Windows Server 2022

tojens on Aug 24 2021 06:00 AM
Instructions for enabling HTTP/3 for your Windows Server-based web services
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Windows Insiders gain new DNS over HTTPS controls

tojens on Jun 29 2021 06:00 AM
A recap of the new ways Insiders can configure the use of DNS over HTTPS on Windows
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Network ATC in Preview on Azure Stack HCI

Dan Cuomo on May 27 2021 11:50 AM
Azure Stack HCI is a subscription service that, like Office 365 or Windows 10, continually get free updates. The next up...
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Algorithmic improvements boost TCP performance on the Internet

huanyi on May 11 2021 07:56 PM
We will walk through our journey and show how we made big strides in improving performance between Windows Server 2016 a...
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Making MsQuic Blazing Fast

nibanks on Apr 14 2021 11:13 AM
In the last year, MsQuic upload speeds have more than quadrupled! Come read about all we've done for MsQuic performance.
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Troubleshooting Switch Misconfiguration

Dan Cuomo on Mar 19 2021 01:46 PM
It can be difficult to determine if you host can't communicate because of a host or physical network configuration. The ...
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Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Stack HCI Parity with AKS PowerShell

jessicaguan on Mar 03 2021 09:00 AM
Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Stack HCI's most recent release with PowerShell updates to align more with Azure Kuber...
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Quick Tip: Does my NIC support VMMQ?

Dan Cuomo on Feb 22 2021 11:49 AM
This article gives a brief overview of VMMQ and provides a pointer on how to quickly identify if your adapters support t...
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Calico for Windows goes Open Source

mkostersitz on Sep 22 2020 07:08 AM
Over the last couple of years Microsoft and Tigera have been working together to close some significant gaps in the Wind...
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Windows Server Insiders getting gRPC support in Http.sys

tojens on Jul 22 2020 06:00 AM
Announcing new Http.sys features to support gRPC 
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Pointer: Domain Time Synchronization in the Age of Working from Home

Dan Cuomo on Jun 05 2020 09:04 AM
Working from home has presented challenges in many areas and it is true for time synchronization on computers used at ho...
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Introducing Packet Monitor

george-guirguis on May 22 2020 06:00 AM
Packet Monitor is an in-box cross-component network diagnostics tool for Windows.
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Windows Insiders can now test DNS over HTTPS

tojens on May 13 2020 10:00 AM
This post will explain how to use DoH as a Windows Insider
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MsQuic is Open Source

Daniel Havey on Apr 28 2020 03:49 PM
Microsoft is open sourcing our QUIC library, MsQuic, on GitHub under an MIT license. MsQuic is a cross-platform, general...
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Introducing SDNSecurityToolkit

tojens on Apr 01 2020 06:00 AM
A new tool for analyzing vulnerabilities in SDN deployments
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L2bridge Container Networking

David Schott on Mar 05 2020 06:00 AM
L2bridge networking is widely used in software-defined data centers thanks to its high configurability, performance, rel...
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Teaming in Azure Stack HCI

Dan Cuomo on Feb 03 2020 06:00 AM
Windows Server currently has two inbox teaming mechanisms with two very different purposes. In this article, we’ll descr...
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Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS

tojens on Nov 17 2019 09:00 PM
Announcing and explaining our intention to support DNS over HTTPS in future versions of Windows
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Windows Containers and Rancher 2.3

mkostersitz on Oct 08 2019 09:05 AM
Container technology is transforming the face of business and application development. 70% of on-premises workloads toda...
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Disabling Legacy TLS

Gabriel Montenegro on Oct 02 2019 06:00 AM
Please read our blog on new capabilities in Windows Server 2019 to enforce improved security on connections.
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Evolution of Timekeeping in Windows

tojens on Aug 05 2019 06:00 AM
A document providing an overview of the time keeping improvements in Windows.
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Direct Server Return (DSR) in a nutshell

mkostersitz on Jun 19 2019 06:00 AM
TL;DR; A question we get asked quite a bit is: "What is Microsoft doing to improve Networking performance?" To answer th...
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Synthetic Accelerations in a Nutshell – Windows Server 2019

Dan Cuomo on May 29 2019 06:00 AM
This is the final post covering synthetic accelerations covering Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019. We recomm...
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DPDK releases v19.05, introduces Windows Support!

Harini Ramakrishnan on May 22 2019 11:02 AM
Windows support for DPDK merges into the community maintained repository with v19.05 release!
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Troubleshooting Kubernetes Networking on Windows: Part 1

David Schott on May 15 2019 06:00 AM
Kubernetes is not easy to troubleshoot – even if you’re an expert. There are multiple components involved in the creatio...
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Synthetic Accelerations in a Nutshell – Windows Server 2016

Dan Cuomo on May 08 2019 06:00 AM
This is the third in a series of posts covering synthetic accelerations covering Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and...
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Synthetic Accelerations in a Nutshell - Windows Server 2012 R2

Dan Cuomo on Apr 24 2019 06:00 AM
This is the second in a series of posts covering synthetic accelerations (specifically VMQ) on 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and ...
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Synthetic Accelerations in a Nutshell – Windows Server 2012

Dan Cuomo on Apr 17 2019 06:00 AM
This is the first in a series of posts covering synthetic accelerations (specifically VMQ) on 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2...

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arslanchariyev
in Enabling HTTP/3 support on Windows Server 2022 on Sep 20 2021 01:51 AM
I have found why TL1.3 was not working on my side.On my servers (which were upgraded from a previous version to Win 2022) I had used Nartac.com's IISCrypto tool ( a great tool by the way) to configure TLS/cipher/schannel settings. Then I had set the template settings on the IIScrypto tool back to "S...
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1username
in L2bridge Container Networking on Sep 15 2021 12:39 PM
The solution as shown with the host as gateway does not seem to work at all. No packets are routed out of the container network. If I change the dummy ARP entry in the container to use the MAC address of the host endpoint instead of the "00-01-e8-eb-2e-4b" in the example, I see bidirectional forward...
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JanReilink
in Enabling HTTP/3 support on Windows Server 2022 on Sep 14 2021 03:52 AM
I can confirm Firefox uses QUIC / HTTP/3, and in my environment Chrome unfortunately doesn't. Maybe has something to do with the supported QUIC/HTTP3 draft version supported by both Chrome and MsQuic? But strange that everyone has different results with in-place upgrades, browsers, etc. The followin...
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el3c
in Enabling HTTP/3 support on Windows Server 2022 on Sep 14 2021 03:38 AM
Same here, only FF is working with QUIC and some stange warnings while sniffing the traffic with wireshark:
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HenningKrause
in Enabling HTTP/3 support on Windows Server 2022 on Sep 14 2021 03:13 AM
FireFox indeed uses QUIC. But neither Chrome nor Edge do, although I explicitly enabled QUIC via the flags (edge://flags/#enable-quic or chrome://flags/#enable-quic).
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