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6 Appendix A: Product Behavior

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The information in this specification is applicable to the following Microsoft products or supplemental software. References to product versions include updates to those products.

  • Windows 2000 Professional operating system

  • Windows 2000 Server operating system

  • Windows XP operating system

  • Windows Server 2003 operating system

  • Windows Vista operating system

  • Windows Server 2008 operating system

  • Windows 7 operating system

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system

  • Windows 8 operating system

  • Windows Server 2012 operating system

  • Windows 8.1 operating system

  • Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system

  • Windows 10 operating system

  • Windows Server 2016 operating system

  • Windows Server operating system

  • Windows Server 2019 operating system

  • Windows Server 2022 operating system

  • Windows 11 operating system

  • Windows Server 2025 operating system

Exceptions, if any, are noted in this section. If an update version, service pack or Knowledge Base (KB) number appears with a product name, the behavior changed in that update. The new behavior also applies to subsequent updates unless otherwise specified. If a product edition appears with the product version, behavior is different in that product edition.

Unless otherwise specified, any statement of optional behavior in this specification that is prescribed using the terms "SHOULD" or "SHOULD NOT" implies product behavior in accordance with the SHOULD or SHOULD NOT prescription. Unless otherwise specified, the term "MAY" implies that the product does not follow the prescription.

<1> Section 2.2.1.4: IPv6 support is available only on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2.

<2> Section 2.2.1.4: This property is only used in Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2. In Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2, use of this property requires manual entry of the property into the .nsc file.

<3> Section 2.2.2: Error correction is always used with the MSB Protocol on Windows Media Services and cannot be disabled.

<4> Section 3.1.3.1: The following optional .nsc file properties are included in .nsc files that are created by Windows 2000 Server but not in .nsc files that are created by Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2:

  • Player URL

  • Player Version

  • Distribution Limit

  • Channel Version

  • Delivery Mode

  • NSC URL

<5> Section 3.1.3.1: The following optional .nsc file properties are included in .nsc files that are created by Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 but not in .nsc files that are created by Windows 2000 Server:

  • Allow Splitting

  • Allow Caching

  • Cache Expiration Time

  • Default Ecc

<6> Section 3.1.3.2: Windows 2000 Server starts the Beacon timer even if it is going to immediately begin transmitting the packets.

<7> Section 3.1.5.1: Windows 2000 Server does not stop the Beacon timer.

<8> Section 3.1.5.3: In Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2, if the last error correction cycle contains fewer than 10 ASF packets, the cycle is not completed with a parity packet.