Microsoft Open Specifications Support Team Blog

One design goal for the SMB 2.1 protocol implementation on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 was to achieve better performance for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (very high speed / low latency networks). This has been achieved with a new feature called ‘Large MTU’,...

Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol, or Protected EAP ( PEAP ) uses EAP as a transport. The Transport Layer Security (TLS) tunnel established in Phase 1 is utilized to protect messages exchanged (e.g. authentication credentials) in Phase 2 against...

Implementing an interoperable directory service requires an LDAP compliant backend. At some point you will need to load the targeted version of a schema from Windows into your implementation. Presented here are some of the concepts, documentation and...