Declarative Security

As you learned in Chapter 8, it is possible to declare the security for a COM server in the registry. This is sometimes called declarative security or per-process security. Note that declarative security and per-process security are not entirely the same. Declarative security consists of the settings in the Windows system registry that are used when a COM server is launched or accessed. Per-process security includes the registry settings but also includes other mechanisms of manipulating the COM server's settings for the entire process, such as the function CoInitializeSecurity().

In Chapter 13, "Configuration and Error Handling," you learn how you can use two tools called DCOMCNFG and OLEView to configure the per-process ...

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