The Office Interoperability team is pleased to announce the availability of new Office 15 Technical Preview protocol documentation. Please reference the MSDN release notes below to learn more about this update. MSDN Release Notes — January 2012...

As part of an ongoing commitment to providing interoperability with Microsoft products, the Learn Open Specifications and Interoperability page (also referred to as the LearnTab) in the Open Specifications Developer Center page hosts instructional content...

The SQL Interoperability team is considering an event in 2012 that will cover the OData ( MS-ODATA ) protocol and associated formats: Conceptual Schema Definition ( MC-CSDL ), and Entity Data Model ( MC-EDMX ). For those of you who have attended either...

The Office Interoperability team is happy to announce the availability of version 1.5 of the Office and SharePoint Products Network Monitor Parsers. Version 1.5 will be the last major update until the next version of Office and SharePoint and includes...

In late June, the Office and Windows Interoperability teams hosted a Windows File Sharing and SharePoint Protocols Plugfest that spanned five days. It was the first joint interoperability event between SharePoint and Windows and the event turned out to...

The Office Interoperability team is proud to announce the public Beta release of the Microsoft Office Binary File Format Validator (BFFValidator) tool. Available on the Microsoft Download Center , BFFValidator is a tool that will validate whether a .doc...

Last week, the Office Interoperability team updated the Learn Open Specifications and Interoperability page in the Open Specifications Developer Center. This update features the debut of the Open Specifications interactive Pivot, nine new learning modules...

We are closing the registration for the June 20 th Windows File Sharing and SharePoint Protocols Plugfest on Monday June 6th. So please register now, if you would like to attend. We are nearing capacity and encourage everyone who has already expressed...

The Office Interoperability team is regularly updating the Learn Open Specifications and Interoperability page in the Open Specifications Developer Center with new topics focused around the Open Specifications. In particular, we’ve recently released...

The Office Interoperability team released version 1.4 of the Office and SharePoint Products Network Monitor Parsers . The table below outlines the changes in the v1.4 package, we have added seven new parsers and provided updates to six others. Network...

Beginning in November, 2010, Microsoft solicited community input regarding its support of the core and most commonly adopted email and calendaring standards in the next versions of Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook. The process confirmed the existing...

The Office and Windows Interoperability Teams are hosting a free event that will cover the SharePoint front-end and Windows File Sharing protocols. Attendees will have the opportunity to: Listen to presentations from Microsoft Subject Matter...

MSDN Release Notes — March 2011 The March 2011 release contains updates made to Microsoft Office Protocols documents since the December 2010 refresh. Microsoft Office File Formats links: Full documentation set (zip): Microsoft...

Many of you are aware that Microsoft Office 2010 shipped with a feature called Office File Validation that validated untrusted binary file formats (BFF) upon load by the application. This feature increased application security and provided users with...

Here is Jason Johnston's post on the Exchange API-spotting blog : ---- The Exchange Interoperability Team is excited to announce the initial release of the Microsoft Exchange RPC Extractor (RPX). RPX is a command-line tool that can parse network...

I am pleased to announce the formation of a new “ Learn ” center on our MSDN Open Specification web-site. The Learn center will provide information targeted at the developer community that is working with our Open Specifications . The content...

Last week, our team released an update to the Office and SharePoint Products Network Monitor Parsers . We are now shipping v1.3 of the parsers package which includes 20 new parsers that enhance support for our Office and SharePoint protocols. As I mentioned...

The Office Interoperability Team updated the MSDN Open Specification documentation Today. We try to release updates on a quarterly basis, if you have any questions about this update or future updates, please ask. This update does not include any new open...

In June, Microsoft hosted a SharePoint File Operations Protocols Plugfest. This event was targeted at 3 rd party implementers who are using the Microsoft Open Specifications to build interoperable products. It was our team’s first event and it was...

The Office Interoperability Team updated the MSDN Open Specification documentation yesterday. This update does not include any new open specifications, only updates to existing documents. This update also contains Service Pack 1 changes. The table below...

Microsoft recognizes that in an increasingly interconnected computing landscape, enabling interoperability between products from different vendors is important. In particular, Microsoft understands that its customers value interoperability with respect...

We have recently completed posting a collection of videos from our Office Binary File Format Plugfest Event on our MSDN Channel 9 blog. There are six presentations from the event that we posted and one presentation from a SharePoint event we hosted back...

During our recent Binary File Format Plugfest, we heard a lot of interest in the MS-OFFCRYPTO specification. In response, we will be hosting a two hour virtual event that will include a presentation and participant discussion on MS-OFFCRYPTO. We are still...

It has been an exciting couple of months for the Office Interoperability team and we are happy to announce an update to the Office and SharePoint Products Network Monitor Parsers. Yesterday, we released version 1.2 of the Office Parsers! This update includes...

The Office Interoperability team hosted their first Binary File Format Plugfest event last week. The two day event was held at the Platform Adoption Center on the Microsoft Campus, October 19th and 20th. The event consisted of a combination of presentations...