What is Microsoft Peer to Peer Networking? Microsoft Peer to Peer Networking (sometimes referred to as just Windows Networking) is what lets you see other Microsoft Peer to Peer or server computers in the Network Neighborhood on your Windows machine. It also lets your computer connect to these computers over the network. It is unsupportable because even though your computer may be configured correctly, another computer configured incorrectly on your network segment can cause your Network Neighborhood to not function correctly. Because we do not have administrative access to dormitory and office Windows computers, there is no way that Computing Services can control the integrity of the Windows network. How does Microsoft Peer to Peer Networking work? Windows networking was originally designed to work on small (LAN) networks in which a central administrator had control over the configuration of all machines. Windows networking works very well in such environments.