Automating Advanced MTS Administration with Visual Basic

[This product will work only on Windows NT 4.0 versions and earlier. For Windows 2000 and later, see COM+ (Component Services).]

The scriptable administration objects can be used to configure clients and roles, export packages, and access the names of collections and properties supported by the catalog. The following topics provide a procedure and Visual Basic version 5.0 sample code using methods on the scriptable administration objects to automate the following administrative tasks:

• Automating Access to MTS Related Collection Names
• Automating Access to MTS Property Information
• Automating MTS Role Configuration
• Automating MTS Package Export
• Automating Configuration of an MTS Client to Use Remote Components
• Automating MTS Package Property Updates on Remote Servers