How To Expose Application Center 2000 Servers in the Windows 2000 Active Directory (286432)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Application Center 2000
This article was previously published under Q286432

SUMMARY

You can expose the existence of Application Center 2000 servers in the Active Directory by using the ACRegSvr tool, which is found in the Support folder of the Application Center 2000 CD-ROM. This tool can be used to create, update, or delete a serviceConnectionPoint object that publishes the existence of the server's Application Center 2000 services.

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ACRegSvr uses the following standard properties of the serviceConnectionPoint object:
  • keywords with the following seven values:
    • 937924B8-AA44-11D2-81F1-00C04FB9624E
    • Microsoft
    • BDB3EA1A-8289-40D5-B5C0-053A1BC2258
    • Microsoft Application Center 2000
    • 185E9C16-4245-409C-B1D4-7950B9A138F7
    • MSAC v1.0
    • AC_Role=<role>

      where <role> is "Controller", "Member", or "NotClustered" as appropriate.

  • serviceDnsName - value is host computer fully qualified domain name
  • serviceDnsNameType - value is "A"
  • serviceBindingInformation with the following three values:
    • AC_ClGUID=<clusterGUID>

      where <clusterGUID> is empty if the computer is not in a cluster; otherwise it is the string representation of the GUID assigned to the cluster by Application Center 2000.

    • AC_ClName=<clustername>

      where <clustername> is the display name of the cluster if this computer is the cluster controller, the string "This server for Rent" if the computer is not clustered, or the string "Member - <clusterGUID>" where <clusterGUID> is the same as the value specified for AC_ClGUID= .

    • AC_AdminURL=<adminURL>

      where <AdminURL> is a URL that identifies the Application Center 2000 admin site on the computer.

The SCP object is created under the host machine's computer account object with the relative distinguished name (RDN) of "cn=MSApplicationCenter2000_<machineaccountname>" where <machineaccountname> is the samAccountName property of the host machine's computer account object.

The object's objectGUID string is cached in the registry under the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Application Center Server key as the REG_SZ value named "SCPObjectGUID". The SCPobject may be moved to another container as long as the SCPObjectGUID value is preserved in the registry.

If you want to search for Microsoft Application Center servers of any version, use the keywords value "BDB3EA1A-8289-40D5-B5C0-053A1BC22581".

If you want to search for Microsoft Application Center 2000 version 1.0 servers, use the keywords value "185E9C16-4245-409C-B1D4-7950B9A138F7".

The ACSearch.vbs script, found in the Support folder on the Application Center CD-ROM, demonstrates a search for all Microsoft Application Center servers in the forest.

NOTES:

There are no schema extensions required to use ACRegSvr.

ACRegSvr is designed to run under the SYSTEM account. If you run it under any other account, that account must have create object permissions for serviceConnectionPoint objects on the server's account object in the Active Directory.

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:7/1/2004
Keywords:kbhowto KB286432
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