1. Service Connection Point Troels Ravn Software Developer Navision Software a/s November 8 1999

2. Agenda What are Service Connection Points? Why are they used? How do they work? When can they be used? Example

3. NOT a “physical” entity A Service Connection Point is... An object that resides in the Active Directory An object that contains information about a service

4. A Service Connection Point is used by... A service, for publishing information about itself A client, for getting the information necessary to bind to the service

5. Using Service Connection Points provides... Location Transparency Clients need not know names or locations of existing services No stale binding

6. How it works (server side) Publish service connection point on first start-up Store service connection point ID in registry Update service connection point on subsequent start-ups

7. How it works (client side) Asks Active Directory for a list of available services to choose from Retrieve binding information for selected service Store service connection point ID Use stored ID to reconnect to service on subsequent start-ups

8. Prerequisites Active Directory support on platform Windows 2000 Windows NT4, 95, 98 with AD-upgrade http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/ other/ADSI25/default.asp Schema extension

9. Example Company network

10. Example Installing Financials Server

11. Example If this is the first NF Server 2.60 in the network, extend the schema

12. Example Publish the service connection point

13. Example Get list of available services Use the binding information in the service connection point to connect to the server

14. Example Server is relocated

15. Example Find old connection point and check the information it contains

16. Example The information in the service connection point is not valid, so update it

17. Example Find service connection point used in last session Use the binding information in the service connection point to connect to the server

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