April, 2009

In this blog I’d like to give some information on what Named Pipes are, what a Named Pipes connection looks like, and some common things to look for if there is an issue. I do hope you have read RPC to Go v.1 and v.2 . It makes this much easier to understand...

There is often confusion about how a computer chooses which adapter to use when sending traffic. This blog describes the process by which a network adapter is chosen for an outbound connection on a multiple-homed computer, and how a local source IP address...

Network Monitor 3.3 has released and can be downloaded now! Download details: Microsoft Network Monitor 3.3 For information about the features of this release, check out the following post on the Netmon blog: Network Monitor 3.3 has arrived! - Mike Platts

This post is meant to discuss the issues that can occur with Destination IP address selection and its affect on the DNS Round Robin process. What is Round Robin and Netmask Ordering DNS Round Robin is a mechanism for choosing an IP address from the list...

In Windows, the DNS Client service is the client component that resolves and caches Domain Name System (DNS) domain names. When the DNS Client service receives a request to resolve a DNS name that it does not contain in its cache, it queries an assigned...

Hello All! It’s Brett Crane from the Networking teams here at Microsoft. Today I wanted to take a few minutes to talk a little about an issue that we have found regarding Terminal Services Gateway. The problem that we have seen may occur when a TSG client...