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Networking Blog

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

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Calico for Windows goes Open Source

mkostersitz on 09-22-2020 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 07-22-2020 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 06-05-2020 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 05-22-2020 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 05-13-2020 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 04-28-2020 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 04-01-2020 06:00 AM
A new tool for analyzing vulnerabilities in SDN deployments
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L2bridge Container Networking

David Schott on 03-05-2020 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 02-03-2020 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 11-17-2019 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 10-08-2019 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 10-02-2019 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 08-05-2019 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 06-19-2019 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 05-29-2019 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 05-22-2019 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 05-15-2019 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 05-08-2019 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 04-24-2019 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 04-17-2019 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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How NOT to test the Windows Time Service

Dan Cuomo on 04-10-2019 06:00 AM
Primer on how to prevent bad testing methodologies from affecting your time accuracy
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Windows Subsystem for Linux for testing Windows 10 PTP Client

Dan Cuomo on 04-03-2019 06:00 AM
In this article, we show a simple setup (video and written instructions) for testing the new Precision Time Protocol (PT...
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Introducing: Kubernetes Overlay Networking for Windows

David Schott on 03-27-2019 04:28 PM
Enhanced support for network topologies, network isolation, and scalability for containers via overlay networking!
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S2D Networking Best Practices @ MVP Days

Dan Cuomo on 02-20-2019 02:22 PM
Recently we spoke at Storage Spaces Direct MVPDays about networking best practices. Check here for the link!
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We've moved!

Dan Cuomo on 02-19-2019 09:52 AM
This is the new home of the Microsoft Windows Core Networking team blog! Follow us on Twitter at our team handle: @Micro...
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Networking in Red Hat OpenShift for Windows

mkostersitz on 02-14-2019 10:12 AM
First published on TECHNET on Dec 06, 2018 Hello again,Today we will be drilling into a more complex topic following the...
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Turkey Day Mailbag

Dan Cuomo on 02-14-2019 10:11 AM
First published on TECHNET on Nov 21, 2018 Hello Networking Enthusiasts - Tomorrow, the US will celebrate Thanksgiving a...
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Managing Windows containers with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11

mkostersitz on 02-14-2019 10:11 AM
First published on TECHNET on Nov 14, 2018 Who is the new guy blogging?Before getting into the topic, I wanted to introd...

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VI_NM
in Windows Subsystem for Linux for testing Windows 10 PTP Client on 10-21-2020
Hi @Dan Cuomo I am yet another person with request for PTP domain parameter addition. We are working with professional video distribution and in that case ST2110 standard is being used to send media over managed network. PTP is being used there as a master clock to synchronize all packets in the net...
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finbarr69
in Windows Insiders can now test DNS over HTTPS on 10-19-2020
@KSC2020 Aha! Thank you. The instructions at the top of this page are not complete. They need updated to look like the instructions at https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/08/05/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-20185/ which differentiate between the Wifi and Ethernet adaptors.Th...
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KSC2020
in Windows Insiders can now test DNS over HTTPS on 10-19-2020
@finbarr69 "For Wi-Fi connections: Go to Settings > Network & Internet > Wi-Fi. Click the adapter properties link, then select Edit IP assignment or Edit DNS server assignment and it will be available in the popup. Currently you will not see the encryption options if you go to the individual network...
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DonnyM
in Windows Insiders can now test DNS over HTTPS on 10-18-2020
That's strange, the options are showing fine on my Win10 Insider Dev install.
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finbarr69
in Windows Insiders can now test DNS over HTTPS on 10-18-2020
I'm on build 20236.1005 in the Dev channel (Insider). I don't see the Encryption options in the DNS settings. I have added the registry key and it has persisted over a reboot. And : No choice of encryption drop-downs. You could add example output for the netsh dns show encryption command so we know ...
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