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Monitoring the status of Forefront UAG DirectAccess services

Applies To: Unified Access Gateway

The following table describes the Forefront UAG DirectAccess services that require monitoring.

Forefront UAG DirectAccess services

Service name Display name Description

iphlpsvc

IP helper

Provides tunnel connectivity using IPv6 transition technologies (6to4, ISATAP, Port Proxy and Teredo), and IP-HTTPS. If this service is stopped, the computer will not have the enhanced connectivity benefits that these technologies offer.

DnsAlgSrv

Microsoft Forefront UAG DNS64 Service

This service complements a NAT64 deployment by translating IPv4 DNS responses to IPv6 DNS responses (according to a predefined NAT64 prefix).

WatchDogSrv

Microsoft Forefront UAG Watch Dog Service

This service monitors the DNS64 service.