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Microsoft Office Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft Office protocol documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) that are used by Microsoft Office to communicate with other Microsoft products.

The documentation is designed to describe each protocol in detail as it is used by Microsoft Office. Each protocol specification documents the technical requirements, limitations, dependencies, and Microsoft-specific protocol behavior.

The documentation 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.

The documentation contains:

• Microsoft Office Protocols Overview
• Microsoft Office Protocols Glossary
• Microsoft Office Protocol Documents
• Microsoft Office Protocols Reference

In addition to being available on this web site, the Microsoft Office protocol documentation is also available as a download package in .zip file format:

• Microsoft Office Protocol Documentation

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