Service Publication

Services advertise themselves using objects stored in Microsoft® Active Directory™. This is known as service publication. Clients query the directory to locate services of interest. This is called client-service rendezvous. This section discusses the types of directory objects used for service publication and explains how they are used for client-service rendezvous.

This section covers the following topics.

• An overview of service publication
• Security issues for service publication
• Connection point objects
• Publishing with service connection points (SCPs)
• What information to store in a service connection point
• Where to create a service connection point
• How to publish replicable, host-based, and database services using service connection points
• Creating and maintaining a service connection point
• How a client queries for an SCP and uses it to bind to a service instance
• Using the RPC name service (RpcNs) APIs to publish an RPC service
• Using Windows® Sockets registration and resolution (RnR) to publish a Windows Sockets service
• Publication of COM-based services in the COM+ class store

For additional information on programming issues for client/service applications, see the following topics:

• For information on how services and clients authenticate each other, see Mutual Authentication Using Kerberos.
• For information on service security contexts and logon accounts, see Service Logon Accounts.