How to search for COM and DCOM Knowledge Base articles

This article was previously published under Q249726 Expand all |  Collapse all On This Page SUMMARY When searching for Microsoft Knowledge Base articles concerning COM and DCOM, you can use the Knowledge Base keywords provided in the following tables as criteria to help filter your search results. Back to the top  |  Give Feedback MORE INFORMATION Knowledge Base keywords for COM and DCOM Category   KB keywords Component Object Model Fundamentals   kbCOMt Distributed COM Fundamentals   kbDCOM Events   kbActiveXEvents Authentication   kbAuthentication Apartment Model   kbApartment Asynchronous Calls   kbAsynchCall Method Call Canceling   kbCallCancel Client Application in Client/Server Context   kbClient Client/Server Applications   kbClientServer Sample Code Not Compilable by Itself kbCodeSnippet COM Internet Services   kbCOMIS Component Categories   kbCompCat Connecting Clients to Servers   kbConnectivity Connection Points   kbConnPts DCOM Configuration Utility (DCOMCnfg.exe)   kbDCOMCnfg Debugging Code, Not Troubleshooting kbDebug Application Deployment Issues kbDeployment Error Message Follow-up Information kbErrMsg RPC Endpoints (Ports)   kbEndpoint Interface Definition Language   kbIDL Inproc Handler   kbHandler Inproc Server (.dll's)   kbInprocSvr Local Servers (.exe's)   kbLocalSvr Marshaling kbMarshal Microsoft Interface Definition Language/Compiler   kbMIDL STA (Single Threaded Apartment) Message Filters   kbMsgFilter Network Protocol   kbNetProtocol Object Pooling   kbObjectPooling Network Pipe or Named Pipe APIs   kbPipes Remote Access Server (RAS) kbRAS Registry Entries   kbRegistry Remote Procedure Calls  kbRPC Compilable Code Samples Created by Support kbSample Windows 32-bit SDK   kbSDKWin32 Relating to Scalability of a Solution kbScalability Security kbSecurity Windows NT System Services   kbService Multithreading   kbThread Thread Synchronization Objects   kbThreadSync User Defined Data Types   kbUserDT Additional useful Knowledge Base keywords Category  KB Keywords  Third Party issues   kb3rdparty Cluster Server (Wolfpack)  kbClustServ Documentation Fixes   kbDocFix Firewalls   kbFirewall Written by Developer Support COM SDK group   kbGrpCOM Mastering COM   kbMastCOM Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)   kbMTS Proxy Server   kbProxyServer Terminal Server   kbTermServ Windows Distributed InterNet Architecture   kbWinDNA Network Load Balancing (NLB) (or WLBS)   kbNLB Keywords for troubleshooting and performance Category   KB Keyword Administrative   kbSysAdmin Visual Studio Application Performance Explorer   kbAppPerfExpl Checklists   kbCheckList Debug Tools   kbDebugTool Network Monitor   kbNetMon Performance Information   kbPerformance Performance Monitoring (Not Profiling)   kbPerfMon Analysis Tools that Assist in Improving Performance   kbPerformanceTool Troubleshooting   kbTroubleShoot Keywords for specific operating systems Category   KB Keywords Windows Operating System   kbOSWin Windows CE OS   kbOSWinCE Windows 95 Operating System   kbOSWin95 Windows 98 Operating System   kbOSWin98 Windows NT Operating System   kbOSNT Windows NT 4.0 Operating System   kbOSNT400 Windows 2000 Operating System   kbOSWin2000 Specific to UNIX Platform   kbOSUNIX Searching instructions Note The portals below may be updated at a future date; therefore, the steps may be slightly different from what is indicated here.  The following steps detail search procedures for these two Microsoft search portals: Knowledge Base search http://support.microsoft.com MSDN Online Support Search http://msdn.microsoft.com/support/ Note Click Search Knowledge Base. Click Advanced Search to open the Advanced Search page. In the Search Product list, you can either choose a broad scope by selecting All Products or you can refine your search to particular technology or product. Select All of the words entered in the Search Type list. In the For box, use a combination of Knowledge Base keywords and search criteria. Examples: kbCOM - will return all COM articles kbDCOM - will return all DCOM articles kbDCOM kbSecurity - will return all DCOM articles discussing security issues. kbDCOM kbSecurity Access Permission - will return all DCOM articles discussing security issues that mention access permissions. Note that "Access Permission" is not a keyword, it is simply additional criteria. Click the Run the Search button to run your search. The following steps detail search procedures for: Microsoft.com Advanced Search http://search.microsoft.com/advancedsearch.aspx Type one or more Knowledge Base keywords in the Search Microsoft.com for box. Examples: kbCOM - will return all COM articles. kbDCOM - will return all DCOM articles. kbDCOM kbSecurity - will return all DCOM articles that discuss security issues. kbDCOM kbSecurity Access Permission - will return all DCOM articles that discuss security issues and mention access permissions. Note that "Access Permission" is not a keyword. It is simply additional criteria. Select English in the Search pages in droplist. Select Knowledge Base (for support) in the Search Only These Sites list. Click the Search button to run the search. Back to the top  |  Give Feedback REFERENCES For more information on searching the Knowledge Base, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 242971 How to use the Developer Support Microsoft Knowledge Base Back to the top  |  Give Feedback