Creating and Configuring COM+ Partitions

Administrators can use COM+ to programmatically create and configure COM+ partitions. In fact, all creation and configuration tasks that an administrator can do from the Component Services or the Active Directory Users and Computers administrative tools can be done by using COM+ collections, objects, and interfaces or through the Active Directory System Interface (ADSI).

Windows XP: The ability to create, configure, or delegate COM+ partitions is not available. The global partition is the only COM+ partition available.

**Windows 2000:  ** The COM+ partitions service is not available in Windows 2000.

Note

The COM+ partitions service is not enabled by default. To use the COM+ partitions service, you must enable it through the Component Services administration tool or by changing the PartitionsEnabled property on the LocalComputer collection to True.

 

To accomplish partition-related tasks, COM+ provides the following programming elements:

• Methods and properties of the ICOMAdminCatalog2 interface on the COMAdminCatalog class:
  • CurrentPartition property.
  • CurrentPartitionID property.
  • CurrentPartitionName property.
  • FlushPartitionCache method.
  • GetPartitionID method.
  • GetPartitionName method.
  • GlobalPartitionID property.
• A set of COM+ objects for creating and managing partitions in Active Directory.
• A COM+ registry key, PartitionCache, for changing the partition cache size.
• A set of partitions-related COM+ Administration Collections:
  • Partitions collection.
  • PartitionUsers collection.
  • RolesForPartition collection.
  • UsersInPartitionRole collection.
• Properties of other COM+ Administration Collections:
  • PartitionID property on the ApplicationInstances collection.
  • AppPartitionID property on the Applications collection.
  • PartitionDescription, PartitionID, and PartitionName properties on the FilesForImport collection.
  • DSPartitionLookupEnabled, LocalPartitionLookupEnabled, and PartitionsEnabled properties on the LocalComputer collection.
  • EventClassPartitionID and SubscriberPartitionID properties on the SubscriptionsForComponent collection.
  • EventClassPartitionID and SubscriberPartitionID properties on the TransientSubscriptions collection.

Related topics

Collecting Partition Metrics

Configuring the Partition Cache

Grouping Applications into Partitions

Managing Local Partitions

Managing Partitions Within Active Directory

Setting Administrative Rights for a Partition