Microsoft and DCE

Deborah Black
Microsoft Corporation

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WINDOWS NT3.1 RPC
* Integral NT3.1 system component 
* Supported on all MS platforms
* Native name service provider
* Connection-oriented 
* Multiple transports
	NetBIOS
	named pipes
	TCP
	SPX
	LPC

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MS RPC Development Tools
* Win32 Software Developer's Kit (SDK)
	16 and 32-bit IDL compiler
	16-bit runtimes w/ distribution license 
	RPC Developer's Guide and Reference

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DCE RPC Features Not Supported in NT3.1
* Connectionless protocols 
* Authentication 
* Hyper integer, full pointers 
* rpc_mgmt_*  APIs 
* rpc_sm_*  APIs
* Cancel support
* Pipes

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Does MS RPC Interoperate with DCE RPC?
* Yes!

* OSF DCE RPC VTS ported to NT
	4 bugs in connection-oriented RPC

* Windows NT 3.11 will pass with flying colors!

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NT 3.1 Unsupported DCE RPC APIs
* rpc_binding_server_from_client
* rpc_mgmt_ep_*
* rpc_mgmt_inq_dflt_protect_level
* rpc_mgmt_inq_if_ids
* rpc_mgmt_inq_server_princ_name
* rpc_mgmt_set_authorization_fn
* rpc_mgmt_set_cancel_timeout

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NT 3.1 Unsupported DCE RPC APIs
* dce_error_inq_text
* rpc_sm_* 
* uuid_compare
* uuid_create_nil
* uuid_equal
* uuid_hash
* uuid_is_nil

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DCE Source Code Portability
*MS focus is interoperability, not source code portability

*Opportunity for third parties

*Digital Equipment Corporation
	Building a secure core client product for Windows NT

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Windows NT 3.11 RPC
* New features planned:
	Connectionless protocol support 
	Authentication 
	Remaining DCE RPC APIs
	Cancel support
	Pipes
	Hyper integer, full pointers
	Optional interpreted marshalling

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Planned Future Interoperability
* Name Service
	Seamless access between Cairo & DCE name spaces
* Time Service
	DTS servers as Cairo time source (?)
* Security
	Mutual authentication of DCE and NT clients

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Questions?

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