1.5           Component Services

With Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1), the COM permissions restrict remote calls that are not authenticated. By default, only members of the Administrators group have the Remote Activation permission and the Launch permissions. This prevents user accounts that do not belong to the Administrators group from starting COM components.

To resolve the permissions issue

1.      From the Windows Control Panel, open Administrative Tools.

2.      Open Component Services.

3.      Expand Component Services, then Computers.

4.      Select My Computer.

5.      On the shortcut menu, click Properties.

This opens the My Computer Properties dialog.

6.      On the COM Security tab, click Edit Limits in the Launch and Activation Permissions area or in the Remote Activation area.

7.      Click the Engineering Base group, and then click Allow for the Remote Access permissions and for the Remote Launch and Remote Activation permissions.

8.      On the Default Properties tab, make sure the Enable Distributed COM on this computer check box is checked.

9.      Click OK twice, to accept the changes.