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White Paper - Cisco's Windows Networking Design Implementation Guide
The term “networking” covers a broad range of technologies, which, combined together, allow computers to share information. Networking components can be segmented into end-system applications, network operating systems, and networking equipment.
A network operating system is software run on all interconnected systems. When Cisco originally wrote this design guide, they included Novell NetWare, Sun’s NFS (Network File System), AppleShare, and Microsoft’s implementation of a network operating system commonly called Windows Networking. Windows Networking is now extensively deployed with millions of nodes. Fundamental changes were made with Windows Vista and Server 2008 (NT 6) and Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 (NT 6.1). This updated document will reference NT 6 and NT 6.1 instead of Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008 and Server 2008r2 to minimize the verbosity.
This design guide explains the basic concepts of Windows Networking and provides insight on how to design networks (LANs and WANs) to best utilize this operating system. The guide also explains protocols, naming, and scaling issues associated with Windows Networking.
In the decade since the original guide (1) was published Microsoft has made significant changes to their network architecture however some of the more troublesome processes that this document was written for remain in production. The tenets of the original document remain valid because of this.
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