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RemoteServerName

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Configures the client to request the object be run at a particular computer whenever an activation function is called for which a COSERVERINFO structure is not specified.

Registry Entry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID
   {AppID_GUID}
      RemoteServerName = name

Remarks

RemoteServerName allows simple configuration management of client applications; they may be written without hard-coded server names and can be configured by modifying the RemoteServerName registry values of the classes of objects they use.

As described in the documentation for the CLSCTX enumeration and the COSERVERINFO structure, one of the parameters of the distributed COM activation is a pointer to a COSERVERINFO structure. When this value is not NULL, the information in the COSERVERINFO structure overrides the setting of the RemoteServerName key for the function call.

Registering COM Servers