The Work Group Server Protocol Program (WSPP) technical documentation set provides specifications for protocols that are used by Microsoft Windows Server operating systems (specifically, Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000 Server Standard Edition, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, and Windows Server 2008) to provide file & print and user & group administration services to Windows work group networks (specifically, Windows 98 and successors up to and including Windows Vista).
The Microsoft Communications Protocol Program (MCPP) technical documentation set provides specifications for protocols that are used by Windows Server operating systems (specifically, Windows NT 3.1 and successors up to and including Windows Server 2008) to interoperate with Windows client operating systems (specifically, Windows 2000 Professional and successors up to and including Windows Vista).
The documentation set is designed to describe each protocol in detail as it is used by Windows. Each protocol specification documents the technical requirements, limitations, dependencies, and Windows-specific protocol behavior.
The documentation set also 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 documentation set contains:
In addition to being available on this Web site, the Windows Protocols documentation set is also available as three download packages in .zip file format:
Note that inter-document links are functional only if all PDF files are located in the same directory. An error message will appear if you click on a link to a document that is in a different folder.
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.