1. Redmond Protocol Plugfest 2016
Welcome
Redmond
Protocol Plugfest 2016

2. Evacuation /Fire/Emergency

3. Mike Neil Keynote speaker Enterprise and Cloud Group
Corporate Vice President

4. Commitment to interoperability
Windows and Windows Server began hosting interop plugfests and IO labs over 10 years ago
48 conferences, plugfests, and IO Labs
265 partners
We will continue to host and participate in events
There have been some people changes, and there may be changes to the specific set of events.
Additional plans for this year include the SNIA Storage Developer’s Conference and a Remote Desktop IO Lab.
We want these events to meet your needs. Talk to Microsoft attendees about your event experiences and feedback.

5. Commitment to support and tools
Open specification support from the Support Engineers is available via and MSDN forums (
Support engineers are here, usually at the tables in the back.
Windows Test suites are being released open source on GitHub (
Test suite developers are here, usually at the tables in the back.
Continued development of network parsers for Message Analyzer and network captures for protocol scenarios.
Parsers were updated on Monday (June 13th).
You’ll be hearing about this and more over the next 3 days.

6. Since last June…
Multiple Windows releases and Windows Server Technical Previews
Open Specifications have been updated for each of these releases
14 new specifications
75 updated specifications (some multiple times)
11 updated overview documents and network captures
Open source test suites on GitHub
MS-SMB, file server, RDP, and the protocol test manager
Windows 10
Windows Server 2016
July 2015: Windows 10 released
November 2015: Windows 10 Update
March 2016: BUILD Preview
August 2015: Technical Preview 3
November 2015: Technical Preview 4
April 2016: Technical Preview 5

7. The next 3 days…and next week
Sessions covering Windows and Windows Server
Telemetry
Device management
File sharing
Hyper-V
Security & Active Directory
Nano Server
Open source test suites
Test suite updates
And of course… protocol updates
Next week is the Windows and Windows Server IO lab
76 people registered
Presentations
Q&A
1:1s
Demonstrations
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