Enterprise Services Security

Serviced components benefit from a set of authentication and authorization services that are included in the Enterprise Services (COM+) infrastructure. Authentication is provided over the RPC channel between client and server, so clients will automatically present to the server with their Windows identities. Authorization is provided by COM+ security roles, which rely on Windows accounts. An Enterprise Services role can contain Windows users and Windows groups. You can limit access to applications, components, interfaces, and methods within a serviced component to members of specific roles.

In general, you can manage security for serviced components through a combination of attributes within your .NET project, and ...

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