COM+ Partition Administration Concepts

Many computing environments require using different configurations of applications simultaneously. For example, a company might want to run a training configuration of an application alongside testing and development configurations. The training configuration could allow users to become familiar with the application while testing and development of the application continued.

If you have to run each configuration of the application on a separate computer, it is both costly and inefficient because it increases hardware costs and administrative overhead. COM+ solves this problem by providing the partitions feature. COM+ partitions enable you to install and use multiple configurations of COM+ applications on a computer simultaneously.

Administrators should understand COM+ partitions because of the enormous benefit for users in a domain. Also, application programmers can use COM+ partitions to ensure that their distributed applications work seamlessly within a partitioned environment.

The following topics in this section provide detailed information about COM+ partitions and how to use them:

• What Are COM+ Partitions?
  
  
• Primary Usage Scenario for COM+ Partitions
  
  
• Administration Overview for COM+ Partitions