Component Services Administration Help

The Component Services administrative tool enables you to configure and administer COM components and COM+ applications. This Component Services Administration Help documentation provides the conceptual information and procedures you can use for the most common system administration tasks. This generally includes installing and configuring COM+ applications, setting security at the application level, and creating and maintaining COM+ partitions.

The Component Services administrative tool is designed both for system administrators and for application developers. For example, developers can configure routine component and application behavior, such as participation in transactions and object pooling. For conceptual information and procedures on tasks mainly reserved for developers using the Component Services administrative tool, in addition to reference information about the COM+ administrative objects and programming interfaces, please see the topics under "COM+ (Component Services)" in the Microsoft Platform SDK. If you don't have the Platform SDK installed, see the MSDN Web site to view or install it.

For information about the latest improvements to the Component Services administrative tool, see What's New in Component Services.

For an overview of the topics and tasks covered in this guide, see Roadmap for Using Component Services Administrative Help.

For important security information, see Administering Trustworthy Computing.