The Visual InterDev RAD Remote Deployment Support component has been removed in Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 (827440)

SUMMARY

Microsoft Windows 2000 contains an optional component that is named Visual InterDev RAD Remote Deployment Support. This component enables you to use Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 to copy and to register Component Object Model (COM) components to the server during development.

After you install Service Pack 4 for Microsoft Windows 2000, the Visual InterDev RAD Remote Deployment Support component is no longer available for installation. The option to install this component has been removed to enhance the security of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server operating system.

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The following alternatives describe ways to remotely deploy COM components to a Web server without using the Visual InterDev RAD Remote Deployment Support component:

Use Terminal Services. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Log on to the server through a Terminal Server session.
2. Stop the Internet Information Service (IIS).
3. Copy the COM component or the COM components to their final destination.
4. Register the components by using Regsvr32.exe and then restart the IIS and the Web publishing service.
Create your own custom component for deploying and registering components.

You can use a security-enhanced File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site to upload the components to the target server. A custom component (for example, a component that is called from a secure ASP page) can then be used to copy the components from the upload location to their final location and then register them. To register them programmatically, the component (typically a .dll file or an .ocx file) must be loaded into memory by using the LoadLibrary API and by calling the DllRegisterServer function that is exported by every COM component.