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Specifies configuration settings for the Named Pipe Activation Service, which manages the lifetime of the named pipe connection, and handles activation requests that arrive over named pipes.

<configuration>
  <system.serviceModel.activation>
    <net.pipe>

Syntax

<configuration>
  <system.serviceModel.activation>
    <net.pipe maxPendingAccepts="Integer"
              maxPendingConnections="Integer"
              receiveTimeout="TimeSpan">
      <allowAccounts>
        <!-- LocalSystem account -->
        <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-18" />
        <!-- LocalService account -->
        <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-19" />
        <!-- Administrators account -->
        <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-20" />
        <!-- Network Service account -->
        <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-32-544" />
        <!-- IIS_IUSRS account (Vista only) -->
        <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-32-568" />
      </allowAccounts>
    </net.pipe>
  </system.serviceModel.activation>
</configuration>

Type

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Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute Description
maxPendingAccepts An integer that specifies the maximum outstanding concurrent accepting threads on the listening endpoint for the sharing service. The default is 2.
maxPendingConnections An integer that specifies the maximum number of connections that can wait for dispatch. The default is 100.
receiveTimeout A TimeSpan that specifies the timeout for reading the framing data and performing connection dispatching from the underlining connections. The default is "00:00:10"

Child Elements

Element Description
<allowAccounts> A collection of configuration elements that contain a securityIdentifier attribute to specify user accounts for processes that host WCF services, and are granted connection access to the sharing service.

Parent Elements

Element Description
<system.serviceModel.activation> Contains configuration settings for the listener process SMSvcHost.exe.

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