INFO: What Is the Visual InterDev RAD Remote Deployment Support

ID: Q184569

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SUMMARY

The Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack includes an installation option for something called the "Visual InterDev RAD Remote Deployment Support," which is not documented in the Option Pack's product documentation. This article describes its purpose.


MORE INFORMATION

The RAD pack is intended for use with Visual InterDev 6.0. Because the RAD components integrate with the FrontPage Server Extensions, which shipped with the Windows NT Option Pack, this component for Visual InterDev 6.0 shipped prior to Visual InterDev's shipping date. Visual InterDev 1.0 does not use this component.

Choosing to install the RAD pack will add a new ISAPI DLL to the standard FrontPage ISAPI DLLs. This new DLL provides support for server-side component registration and basic MTS package setup through HTTP. Typically you would need a DCOM connection to register server-side components or setup MTS packages.

When attempting to install, a warning indicates that once installed, any user with "author" privilege on the Web site can try to register server- side objects. This means that users can run the DllRegsiterServer function of any DLL they can upload. This is why you would not want this (in most cases) on a production server.

That said, this is a great testing and development feature since users do not need to physically go to the server to register objects. The warning is carefully worded so that only people who desire this functionality will load this component on their server.


REFERENCES

For the latest Knowledge Base articles and other support information on Visual InterDev and Active Server Pages, see the following page on the Microsoft Technical Support site:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/vinterdev/

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Keywords          : kbnokeyword kbExtension kbFrontPage kbServer kbVisID kbVisID100 kbWebServer kbGrpASP 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: July 9, 1999