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Hello folks!  I'm Shyam Seshadri, the Program Manager for the Windows Domain Name System (DNS) server and client.  DNS is the Internet's phonebook, which is responsible for converting a human readable name such as www.microsoft.com into a computer readable IP address.  Computers use IP addresses to connect to other computers, but DNS allows you to access resources over the Internet or over a private network without having to remember these IP addresses and use names that are easy to remember.

Windows DNS server is one of the most commonly deployed Windows Server roles and is an integral part of an Active Directory deployment.  Every computer is a DNS client that allows applications such as web browsers to convert names to IP addresses.  In my role at Microsoft, I am responsible for both the DNS server that ships with the Windows Server operating systems as well as the DNS Client which ships with all Windows operating systems (server and client). 

I plan on blogging about best practices around DNS deployment, new features in DNS in upcoming releases of Windows as well as a little bit about the DNS team here at Microsoft.  But more importantly, I want to use this blog as a forum to reach out to the users and administrators of DNS and to hear your thoughts and comments on Windows DNS.

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