Microsoft Symbol Server is a Windows technology used to obtain symbol

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information. It is built by using the SymSrv technology that is bundled with the Debugging Tools for Windows package. The SymChk.exe utility can be used to verify symbols and to build a local symbol cache in a convenient, supposedly non-invasive way. This utility is included with the Debugging Tools for Windows.

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2005 and later can be set up to use the Microsoft Symbol Server.How to Setup Visual Studio 2005 to use the Microsoft Symbol Server
(archived from the original on December 28, 2009) The symbol server technology is built into Debugging Tools for Windows.

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Debugging with Symbols (Windows) MSDN
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