# The Microsoft Network Project (MNP) - the secret's out!

<datetime class="hidden">2005-12-10T00:00</datetime>
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The Microsoft Network Project (MNP) - the secret's out! 

posted on Thursday, May 20, 2004 1:27 PM

Recently been working on a site with this stuff, until now this has been really poorly documented (you may have seen a page with a .mspx extension - that's an MNP page). Anyway, [Tim Sneath](http://weblogs.asp.net/tims) [mentioned](http://weblogs.asp.net/tims/archive/2004/05/20/135772.aspx) an [article which was recently pulbished](http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/bkst_column_46.mspx)which covers in far more detail than I'd seen before, the structure and implementation of this system...worth a read!

UPDATE: Just in case..[here's the reason](http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/overview/dotnet/buildsite.mspx) I can mention MNP  - otherwise it'd have been covered by my NDA and I'd have had a pinky removed (that's Microsoft right, I keep confusing Micrsoft and the Yakuza)