SharePoint Front-End Protocols

The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) that are used by SharePoint Products and Technologies software (namely Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 applied and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1 applied) to communicate with other Microsoft products.

This section includes a set of companion overview and reference documents pertaining to protocols where SharePoint Products and Technologies implement only one of the protocol endpoints. These protocols are intended for interoperability between SharePoint Products and Technologies and external applications. The documents supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships and interactions, and technical reference information.

Audience

The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation is intended for use in conjunction with publicly available standard specifications, and network programming art. It assumes that the reader either is familiar with this material or has immediate access to it.

The technical documentation provides the following levels of audience support:

Implementer: Sufficient conceptual and reference information for a successful implementation of one or more protocol specifications for a given task or scenario.
Reviewer: A definitive resource for readers who want to evaluate or understand one or more protocols.

Specification	Description
[MS-ACCDT]: Access Template File Format Specification	Specifies the Access Template File Format, which is a collection of structures used to define a database application including schemas for storing data, the data to be stored, layout descriptions for views of the data, actions controlling workflow, and metadata describing the database application as a whole. Click here to view this version of the [MS-ACCDT] PDF.
[MS-ADMINS]: Administration Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Administration Web Service Protocol, which allows a protocol client to create and delete Web sites and to retrieve information about which languages are supported by a Web site. Click here to view this version of the [MS-ADMINS] PDF.
[MS-ALERTSS]: Alerts Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Alerts Service Protocol, which allows the remote enumeration and management of alerts on a server running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Click here to view this version of the [MS-ALERTSS] PDF.
[MS-ASWS]: Access Services Protocol Specification	Specifies the Access Services Protocol, which is used to transfer an application between a client and a server as well as its payloads. Click here to view this version of the [MS-ASWS] PDF.
[MS-AUTHWS]: Authentication Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Authentication Web Service Protocol, which enables a protocol client to specify a proxy that provides user authentication for Web sites that use forms-based authentication. Click here to view this version of the [MS-AUTHWS] PDF.
[MS-AXL]: Access Application Transfer Protocol Structure Specification	Specifies the Access Application Transfer Protocol Structure, which is a collection of Web services used by Access to communicate with a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 installation that has the Access Services feature enabled. Click here to view this version of the [MS-AXL] PDF.
[MS-BCSDPFFS]: Business Connectivity Services Deployment Package File Format Specification	Specifies the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Deployment Package File Format, which describes the contents of a deployment package for a BCS solution, the BCS specific extensions to the Visual Studio Tools for Office Click Once Schema Specification, and a BCS specific file format representing the properties of an external list. Click here to view this version of the [MS-BCSDPFFS] PDF.
[MS-BCSDWPS]: Business Connectivity Services Deployment Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Business Connectivity Services Deployment Web Service Protocol, which is a contract for creating deployment packages, creating external lists views, and creating search pages associated with external content types. Click here to view this version of the [MS-BCSDWPS] PDF.
[MS-BDCDP]: Business Data Catalog Data Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Business Data Catalog Data Web Service Protocol. Enterprises have a variety of data stored in various line-of-business systems (LOB systems). It is desirable to be able to provide a uniform selection or pick a user experience to access such data that works against all types of LOB systems. This protocol enables such an experience to be built by describing LOB systems in terms of Models of LobSystem objects, LobSystem instances and the business data types they store as entities. It also specifies how the selection process functions between protocol client and protocol server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-BDCDP] PDF.
[MS-BDCMP]: Business Data Catalog Metadata Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Business Data Catalog Metadata Web Service Protocol, which enables the clients to query the business data stored on the server-side business data catalog. Click here to view this version of the [MS-BDCMP] PDF.
[MS-BDCRAWPS]: Business Data Connectivity Remote Administration Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Business Data Connectivity Remote Administration Web Service Protocol. This protocol enables protocol clients to create, store, and retrieve information about interfaces of line-of-business systems (LOB systems). Click here to view this version of the [MS-BDCRAWPS] PDF.
[MS-CONATB]: Content Area Toolbox Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Content Area Toolbox Web Service Protocol, which enables a protocol client to enumerate the Web controls available for use on a Web page stored on a protocol server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-CONATB] PDF.
[MS-COPYS]: Copy Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Copy Web Service Protocol, which describes a method of copying files and its associated properties, such as creation date and author, to one or more locations inside a single server or between different servers. Click here to view this version of the [MS-COPYS] PDF.
[MS-CPSWS]: SharePoint Claim Provider Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the SharePoint Claim Provider Web Service Protocol. This protocol enables a protocol client to access claims returned by the claim providers available on a protocol server. A typical scenario for this protocol is a client application that allows users to search and resolve people and groups from a set of directory services and external identity providers. Click here to view this version of the [MS-CPSWS] PDF.
[MS-CSOM]: SharePoint Client Query Protocol Specification	Specifies the SharePoint Client Query Protocol Specification. This protocol specifies a mechanism by which an application on a client computer can invoke methods and access data on a front-end Web server. Actions that the client application wants to execute are sent as part of the request, and the results of the actions are sent as part of the response. Click here to view this version of the [MS-CSOM] PDF.
[MS-CSOMSPT]: SharePoint Client-Side Object Model Protocol Specification	Specifies the types, methods, and properties of the SharePoint Client-Side Object Model API Protocol that can be used to communicate with and manipulate aspects of a collaboration server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-CSOMSPT] PDF.
[MS-DOCTRANS]: Document Transforms Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Document Transforms Service Protocol, which grants a protocol client the ability to call a file conversion service, which converts a file from one format to another. Click here to view this version of the [MS-DOCTRANS] PDF.
[MS-DSPSTSS]: Data-Source Adapter SharePoint Team Services Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Data-Source Adapter SharePoint Team Services Web Service Protocol, which provides access to list data and site data by using a Web service. Click here to view this version of the [MS-DSPSTSS] PDF.
[MS-DWSS]: Document Workspace Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Document Workspace Web Service protocol. This protocol is used to create, edit, and delete workspaces and folders for a site configured as a Document Workspace. Click here to view this version of the [MS-DWSS] PDF.
[MS-EAWF]: Group Approval Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Group Approval Web Service Protocol, which enables the protocol client to specify and retrieve data required to submit or approve Group Approval documents. Click here to view this version of the [MS-EAWF] PDF.
[MS-ECTPWPS]: External Content Type Picker Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the External Content Type Picker Web Service Protocol, which is a Web Service protocol that is used by a protocol client to perform a set of actions suited for searching and picking External Content Types offered by the Business Data Catalog on the server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-ECTPWPS] PDF.
[MS-EMMWCF]: Metadata Shared Service WCF Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Metadata Shared Service WCF Service. This protocol is used to communicate with an application that manages a store of structured metadata. Click here to view this version of the [MS-EMMWCF] PDF.
[MS-EMMWS]: Microsoft Enterprise Managed Metadata Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Enterprise Managed Metadata Web Service protocol. This protocol enables a protocol client to interact with a managed metadata store. A typical scenario for using this protocol is tagging a document with managed metadata via a rich client application. Click here to view this version of the [MS-EMMWS] PDF.
[MS-ESP]: Excel Web Services Protocol Specification	Specifies the Excel Web Services Protocol, which specifies how to read from and perform basic operations on spreadsheets hosted on a server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-ESP] PDF.
[MS-ESURL]: Excel Services Publishing Protocol Specification	Specifies the Excel Services Publishing Protocol, which specifies how the protocol client should form the URL to the protocol server to display the contents of a published workbook in the browser. Click here to view this version of the [MS-ESURL] PDF.
[MS-FORMS]: Forms Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Forms Service protocol. This protocol enables a client to get a list of forms from a protocol server and to get individual forms from that list. Click here to view this version of the [MS-FORMS] PDF.
[MS-FSDAP]: Forms Services Design and Activation Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Forms Services Design and Activation Web Service Protocol, which enables a form server to respond to requests from a protocol client. Click here to view this version of the [MS-FSDAP] PDF.
[MS-FSFDP]: Forms Services Feature Detection Protocol Specification	Specifies the Form Server Feature Detection Protocol, which enables a protocol client to detect if form server features are present and constructs the URL that is required to render a form in a Web browser. Click here to view this version of the [MS-FSFDP] PDF.
[MS-FSPP]: Forms Services Proxy Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Forms Services Proxy Web Service Protocol that allows the protocol client to call a WSDL operation through a centralized service located on a known protocol server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-FSPP] PDF.
[MS-FSSHTTP]: File Synchronization via SOAP over HTTP Protocol Specification	Specifies the File Synchronization via SOAP over HTTP Protocol, which enables one or more protocol clients to synchronize changes done on shared files stored on a server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-FSSHTTP] PDF.
[MS-FSSHTTPB]: Binary Requests for File Synchronization via SOAP Protocol Specification	Specifies the Binary Requests for File Synchronization via SOAP Protocol, which enables protocol clients to synchronize the state of a structured file hosted by a protocol server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-FSSHTTPB] PDF.
[MS-IMAGS]: Imaging Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Imaging Services Protocol, a set of client-server interactions that allows a client to retrieve, upload and organize images on a server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-IMAGS] PDF.
[MS-IPFF]: InfoPath Form Template Format Structure Specification	Specifies the InfoPath Form Template Format Structure, which enables a form server to render and edit a new or existing form file in a Web browser. Click here to view this version of the [MS-IPFF] PDF.
[MS-IPFF2]: InfoPath Form Template Format Version 2 Structure Specification	Specifies the file format for InfoPath form templates, which enables a form server to parse and retrieve new or existing form files in a Web browser. Click here to view this version of the [MS-IPFF2] PDF.
[MS-IPFFX]: InfoPath Form File Format Specification	Specifies the InfoPath Form File Format, which, with an associated form template, specifies how a form server will render and edit the data in a form file using a Web browser. Click here to view this version of the [MS-IPFFX] PDF.
[MS-LISTSWS]: Lists Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Lists Web Service Protocol, which enables a protocol client to perform tasks related to list-based content on a protocol server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-LISTSWS] PDF.
[MS-MAR]: MOSS Analytics Reporting Protocol Specification	Specifies the MOSS Analytics Reporting Protocol, which enables a protocol client to log specific events and then retrieve analytical reports about Web traffic, search, and inventory for various entities in the farm. Click here to view this version of the [MS-MAR] PDF.
[MS-MEETS]: Meetings Web Services Protocol Specification	Specifies the Meetings Web Services Protocol, which provides methods to create and update Meeting Workspace sites. Click here to view this version of the [MS-MEETS] PDF.
[MS-METAWEB]: MetaWeblog Extensions Protocol Specification	Specifies the MetaWeblog Extensions Protocol, which are a set of extensions to the MetaWeblog API to allow for more secure authentication mechanisms. Click here to view this version of the [MS-METAWEB] PDF.
[MS-OFBA]: Office Forms Based Authentication Protocol Specification	Specifies the Microsoft Office Forms-Based Authentication Protocol, which describes how Microsoft provides support for Forms-Based authentication (FBA) in the 2007 Microsoft Office system over the HTTP Protocol in addition to other standard authentication mechanisms. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OFBA] PDF.
[MS-OFFICIALFILE]: Official File Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Official File Web Service Protocol, which enables the submission of files to a repository. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OFFICIALFILE] PDF.
[MS-OMS]: Office Mobile Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Office Mobile Service (OMS) Protocol. This protocol is used to transmit text and mobile messages between a protocol client and a protocol server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OMS] PDF.
[MS-OOWQWS]: Office Online Web Query Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Office Online Web Query Web Service Protocol. This protocol is used to enumerate details about files in the Office Online repository. This protocol allows the user to traverse through the different categories in which the files are organized and query details about the categories along with the sub-categories and files organized under them. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OOWQWS] PDF.
[MS-OSALER]: Alerts Interop Protocol Specification	Specifies the Alerts Interop Protocol, which is used to identify and interpret alert e-mail messages sent by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, including embedded metadata and the usage of that metadata. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OSALER] PDF.
[MS-OSCO]: Office Server ClickOnce Manifest Structure Specification	Specifies the Office Server ClickOnce Manifest Structure which contains runtime information specific to a Visual Studio Tools for Office solution. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OSCO] PDF.
[MS-OUTSPS]: Lists Client Sync Protocol Specification	Specifies the Lists Client Sync Protocol, which allows clients to transfer data to and from a server that implements the Lists Web service. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OUTSPS] PDF.
[MS-PEOPS]: People Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the People Web Service Protocol, which enables a protocol client to resolve and find principals. This protocol allows the protocol client to pass criteria, which consist of a list of keys and the principal type, to the protocol server and to receive back a list of resolved principals. Click here to view this version of the [MS-PEOPS] PDF.
[MS-PERMS]: Permissions Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Permissions Web Service Protocol, which enables protocol clients to manage permissions to content items on the protocol server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-PERMS] PDF.
[MS-PLSP]: Published Links Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Published Links Web Service Protocol. This protocol specifies an operation that allows a protocol client to retrieve a list of potentially useful URLs and descriptive details about each URL. Click here to view this version of the [MS-PLSP] PDF.
[MS-PPSAS]: PerformancePoint Services AuthoringService Protocol Specification	Specifies the PerformancePoint Services Authoring Service Web Service Protocol, which specifies the communication sequences used to author a dashboard. Click here to view this version of the [MS-PPSAS] PDF.
[MS-PPSDECO]: PerformancePoint Services Decomposition Tree Protocol Specification	Specifies the PerformancePoint Services Decomposition Tree Web Service Protocol, which specifies the communication sequences used to render a decomposition tree visualization in the context of a PerformancePoint dashboard in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Click here to view this version of the [MS-PPSDECO] PDF.
[MS-PPSRS]: PerformancePoint Services RenderingService Protocol Specification	Specifies the PerformancePoint Rendering Service Web Service Protocol. This protocol specifies communication sequences used to render grids, charts, scorecards, and other analytic web parts. Click here to view this version of the [MS-PPSRS] PDF.
[MS-PRIMEPF]: Deployment Package Format Specification	Specifies the Deployment Package Format, which can be used to transfer or store the structure and content of Web sites. Click here to view this version of the [MS-PRIMEPF] PDF.
[MS-PRSTFR]: ADO XML Persistence Format Protocol Specification	Specifies the ADO XML Persistence Format Protocol, which is a subset of the ADO XML Persistence Format used by some communication protocols to represent the tabular data retrieved from relational databases. Click here to view this version of the [MS-PRSTFR] PDF.
[MS-PUBWS]: Publishing Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Publishing Web Service Protocol, which enables a protocol client to perform tasks related to template-based published content on a protocol server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-PUBWS] PDF.
[MS-SEARCH]: Search Protocol Specification	Specifies the Search protocol that allows clients to issue queries against an Office SharePoint Server Search service. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SEARCH] PDF.
[MS-SHDACCWS]: Shared Access Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the interface of the Shared Access Web Service protocol that is used for determining whether a document is being co-authored. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SHDACCWS] PDF.
[MS-SITED3S]: Site Data 2003 Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Site Data 2003 Web Service Protocol, which is used for building the site content index. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SITED3S] PDF.
[MS-SITEDATS]: Site Data Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Site Data Web Service Protocol, which is used for full and incremental indexing of the site content. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SITEDATS] PDF.
[MS-SITESS]: Sites Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Sites Web Service Protocol, which enables a protocol client to execute tasks on a site. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SITESS] PDF.
[MS-SLIDELI]: Slide Library Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Slide Library Web Service Protocol, which enables protocol clients to obtain information about slides in a slide library on protocol server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SLIDELI] PDF.
[MS-SPAFWI]: SharePoint Activity Feed Web Interfaces Protocol Specification	Specifies the SharePoint Activity Feed Web Interfaces Protocol, which specifies extensions for serializing and distributing social metadata about how the users of a Web site interact. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SPAFWI] PDF.
[MS-SPDIAG]: SharePoint Diagnostics Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the SharePoint Diagnostics Web Service Protocol, which enables the protocol client to submit diagnostic reports describing application errors that occur on the client. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SPDIAG] PDF.
[MS-SPEMAWS]: SharePoint E-Mail Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the SharePoint E-Mail Web Service Protocol, which is a SOAP-based protocol that enables contact and distribution group management in Active Directory directory services from a server running Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SPEMAWS] PDF.
[MS-SPLCHK]: SpellCheck Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the SpellCheck Web Service Protocol, which enables a protocol client to check the spelling of a set of words. This protocol allows the protocol client to pass a set of texts to the protocol server and receive back from the protocol server a set of words identified as containing errors and suggestions for correcting those errors. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SPLCHK] PDF.
[MS-SPRSS]: RSS 2.0 Format Extensions Specification	Specifies the RSS 2.0 Format Extensions, which are extensions to the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0 Format. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SPRSS] PDF.
[MS-SPSCRWL]: SPSCrawl Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the SPSCrawl Web Service Protocol, which allows clients to read the value of item properties for any items on the server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SPSCRWL] PDF.
[MS-SPSTWS]: SharePoint Security Token Service Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies restrictions on a set of Web services specifications and provides clarifications that promote interoperability when building SharePoint web services. This protocol and the profiled Web services specifications are used by both clients and servers to implement authentication. Click here to view this version of the [MS-SPSTWS] PDF.
[MS-STSSYN]: StsSync Structure Specification	Specifies the StsSync Structure, which is a structure for encoding parameters necessary to connect to a remote list. Click here to view this version of the [MS-STSSYN] PDF.
[MS-TMPLDISC]: Template Discovery Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Template Discovery Web Service. This Web service enables a protocol client to retrieve links to document templates associated with a document library on a protocol server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-TMPLDISC] PDF.
[MS-UGS]: UserGroup Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Users and Groups Web Service Protocol. This protocol enables the definition, modification, and retrieval of information about users, groups, and roles. Click here to view this version of the [MS-UGS] PDF.
[MS-UPIEWS]: User Profile Import and Export Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the User Profile Import/Export Web Service Protocol, used to import and export user profile and member group data to and from the user profile store. Click here to view this version of the [MS-UPIEWS] PDF.
[MS-UPSDWS]: User Profile Social Data Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the User Profile Social Data Web Service protocol to add, update, remove and retrieve Social Tags, Notes and Ratings on documents and web pages. Click here to view this version of the [MS-UPSDWS] PDF.
[MS-USPSWS]: User Profile Service Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the User Profile Service Web Service Protocol, which is a Web service to retrieve user profile data and data in common among users, as well as manage user profile properties, links, group memberships, and colleagues. Click here to view this version of the [MS-USPSWS] PDF.
[MS-USRPCH]: User Profile Change Log Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the User Profile Change Log Web Service Protocol, which is used to query and sync changes made to individual user profiles from client applications. Click here to view this version of the [MS-USRPCH] PDF.
[MS-VERSS]: Versions Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Versions Web Service Protocol, which enables a protocol client to view and modify the version information of an existing file on a protocol server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-VERSS] PDF.
[MS-VIEWSS]: Views Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Views Web Service Protocol, which enables a protocol client to manage a list view. Click here to view this version of the [MS-VIEWSS] PDF.
[MS-WDVMODUU]: Office Document Update Utility Extensions Protocol Specification	Specifies the Office Document Update Utility Extensions Protocol, which is an extended protocol for synchronization management between a WebDAV client and a Document Workspace site on a WebDAV server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-WDVMODUU] PDF.
[MS-WEBDAVE]: Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning Error Extensions Protocol Specification	Specifies the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning Error Extensions Protocol, which are the currently implemented extended error codes between WebDAV servers and WebDAV clients. Click here to view this version of the [MS-WEBDAVE] PDF.
[MS-WEBSS]: Webs Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Webs Web Service Protocol, which provides methods for modifying sites in the site collection. Click here to view this version of the [MS-WEBSS] PDF.
[MS-WPPS]: Web Part Pages Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Web Part Pages Web Service Protocol, which enables a client to gather the information necessary to create browsable Web pages, and also uses server resources to create execution logic that reacts to changes in the server state. Click here to view this version of the [MS-WPPS] PDF.
[MS-WSSCAML]: Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) Structure Specification	Specifies the Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) Structure, which are XML-based formats for queries, lists, and content types in Windows SharePoint Services, as used by other protocols. Click here to view this version of the [MS-WSSCAML] PDF.
[MS-WSSCAP]: Windows SharePoint Services Collaborative Application Protocol Specification	Specifies the Windows SharePoint Services Collaborative Application Protocol, which is the communication between the client and front-end Web server to get and manipulate lists, list views, and Web discussions on the server. This protocol allows the client to manage the schema and properties of the lists, create, and modify fields, and render list views. This protocol also allows for retrieving the schemas of sites on the server. Click here to view this version of the [MS-WSSCAP] PDF.
[MS-WSSHP]: HTTP Windows SharePoint Services Headers Protocol Specification	Specifies the HTTP Windows SharePoint Services Headers Protocol, which extends the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) mechanisms to include new headers and messages that enable previously undefined behaviors, such as authenticating client connections, communicating error conditions, sending complex data, and interacting with information rights management systems, antivirus systems, and crawlers. Click here to view this version of the [MS-WSSHP] PDF.
[MS-WSSREST]: ListData Data Service Protocol Specification	Specifies extensions to the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and its extensions specified in Atom Publishing Protocol: Data Services URI and Payload Extensions. Click here to view this version of the [MS-WSSREST] PDF.
[MS-WSSTS]: Windows SharePoint Services: Technical Specification	Specifies the Windows SharePoint Services: Technical specification, which provides an overview of abstract data structures, and specifies fields, field types, and lists used by protocols used in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Click here to view this version of the [MS-WSSTS] PDF.
[MS-WWSP]: Workflow Web Service Protocol Specification	Specifies the Workflow Web Service Protocol, which is the communication sequences used to query, start, and manipulate workflows on a document. Click here to view this version of the [MS-WWSP] PDF.