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MS Windows Distributed Component Object Model. DCOM is Microsoft's approach to a network-wide environment for program and data objects. It is similar to CORBA

more information can be found here: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/DCOM-Distributed-Component-Object-Model

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc958799.aspx

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Dcom component won't retain its credentials

I've recently moved a 3rd party very old Web app from a Win. 2003 server to a Win 2008 R2 server. The app uses a DCOM component (Microsoft Word Document) which runs under a particular user account. When I enter credentials for the component it all…
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DCOM Security Settings not exported with secedit

I've got a problem with exporting the DCOM-settings. I call secedit /export /cfg C:\UserAccess\config.txt This should export the COM and DCOM settings. But I don't get all of the settings. For example Act as a part of the operatingsystem…
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DC is trying to communicate with unknown servers using DCOM

Event viewer on my DC has new error every few seconds saying "DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer ip address using any of the configured protocols." Non of the IP addresses in any of the errors are known to us, non of them in the…
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Excel cannot see Windows mapped drive when running under a service

I have an application that runs as a service. This application allows the user to connect and starts a subprocess under the user's windows account. In other words, mydomain\john connects to the service via TCP and says "launch" which starts a…
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Component services, running processes, scheduled recycle

I've got a Windows Server 2003 SBS SP2 box. It's hosting our business application. About once a week the clients for the application on work stations throughout the office get so they receive an "Unable to contact business server" error message. At…
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DCOM Authentication Fails to use Kerberos, Falls back to NTLM

I have a webservice that is written in Classic ASP. In this web service it attempts to create a VirtualServer.Application object on another server via DCOM. This fails with Permission Denied. However I have another component instantiated in this…
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How can I get Airflow on Linux run a VBS script that is automatically downloading SAP data?

I have an Airflow installed on CentOS and I am able to run scripts/commando's on my Windows 10 machine. However, I have a VBS script that starts Excel and SAP Logon and then automatically logins, fills in some fields and download a file. When I run…
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How to add an application to Windows RPC endpoint mapper

Our DCOM application serves up objects on a specific port such as 4162, and the client used to be able to get objects via a moniker specifying a full binding (e.g. 10.0.0.15[4162]). The September 2018 Windows 10 feature update broke this approach,…
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change Access Permissions in Component Services > COM Security with script/api?

How do I go about changing the Access Permissions for the COM Security? I need to write new values to "Edit Limits..." and "Edit Default..."
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Define static DCOM port

We have a monitoring server that needs to monitor a Windows Server 2016 in a different VLAN. These VLANS are separated by a hardware firewall. Instead of opening a range of ports for the DCOM communication we would like to set one static port. The…
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Premissions needed to launch COM as "The launching user" identity?

Solved: added full control over C:\Program Files\Application folder to group containing "The launching user". Using dcomcnfg I can configure a application identity, when launched from another application as COM. When The launching user user is…
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DCOM identity and authentication from inside a Windows Container

I’m in the process of trying to containerize a Windows DCOM application that uses RPC to connect to a particular service. Normally I would grant the DCOM application server dcom remote permissions on the RPC endpoint server and everything works…
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Enable port 135 on Azure server

I have a licensing manager software installed on Azure VM and a client tool tries to connect to it using a DCOM request, which I believe uses port 135. However, I get an 'access is denied' error when it tries to establish a connection. Port scan I…
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Suppressing DCOM error 10009

I have a server which generates hundreds of DCOM errors (10009) every day. DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer ServerName.Domain.local using any of the configured protocols. This server does exist but is on a separate subnet so lack…
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"Failed to create COM object `hMailServer.Application'", although Everyone has launch and activation DCOM permissions

In a Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter environment with IIS 8.5.9600.16384, Plesk 12.5.30 Update #24 and hMailServer 5.6.4-B2283 I'm trying to install the web interface PHPWebAdmin that ships with hMailServer to allow the users to access their mail…
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