What Is a DCOM Server Process?
The DCOM is an architecture created by Microsoft to add functionality for secure communication between different processes on the same or different machines.
-
Acronym
-
DCOM stands for Distributed Component Object Model.
COM
-
The COM is a software architecture that allows different programs on a computer to securely communicate with each other.
-
Purpose of DCOM
-
COM is normally limited to processes on a single machine. DCOM extends this to allow COM to transparently transmit information over a network between multiple computers.
Server Process
-
The server process is program running on a computer that manages the transmission of DCOM messages.
First Release
-
DCOM was first released as a part of the Windows NT 4 operating system in 1995.
-
References
- Photo Credit internet image by Stephanie Bandmann from Fotolia.com