The Microsoft Communications Protocol Program (MCPP) technical documentation set provides detailed technical specifications for protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) that are used by Windows Server operating systems (specifically, Windows NT 3.1 and successors up to and including Windows Server 2008 R2) to interoperate with Windows client operating systems (specifically, Windows 2000 Professional and successors up to and including Windows 7). The documentation set includes a set of companion overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships and interactions, and technical reference information, such as common data types and error codes.
The MCPP technical documentation set is intended for use in conjunction with publicly available standard specifications, network programming art, and Windows distributed systems concepts. It assumes that the reader either is familiar with this material or has immediate access to it.
The technical documentation set provides the following levels of audience support:
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For implementers: Provides sufficient conceptual and reference information for a successful implementation of one or more protocol specifications for a given task or scenario.
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For reviewers: Serves as a definitive resource for readers who want to evaluate or understand one or more protocols.
More Information
For more information on these protocols, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/protocols.
Questions
If you have questions about the protocol documentation, please visit the Open Specifications Forums on MSDN.