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Well most of you know me as a Groove fetish guy. I even have a favorite port number 2492 and that is the Groove SSTP(Simple Symmetric Transport Protocol) port.

Now I got really confused when I saw that Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 also use SSTP but is not the same as the Groove SSTP. For Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 SSTP means Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol.

So we have two Microsoft products with protocols with the same name. I feel a bit schizophrenic now.

SSTP within Groove is used to setup a peer to peer connection to Groove clients. And to talk to the Microsoft Office Groove Relay servers. Its a UDP protocol by the way.

SSTP within Windows Server 2008 the Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) is to allow VPN connections over HTTPS/port 443. SSTP is an alternative for the PPTP or L2TP/IPSec protocols that were available in Windows Server 2003. SSTP will reduce the management and overhead for maintaining a VPN, as most organizations allow port 443 to pass unhindered through their firewalls.

I think that both SSTP’s are great but please change the abbreviations my dear Microsoft. Because we never say the complete names.

By the way, What is your favorite port number???

see ya

Jeroen

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