UNDERSTANDING MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000 DISTRIBUTED SERVICES provides a coherent architectural overview of these powerful and interrelated services. After reading this book you'll understand how the distributed services in Windows 2000 work together to create a robust secure platform for the next generation of distributed applications. Topics covered include:

The Windows 2000 Distributed Services architecture
Active Directory services
Distributed Security: Kerberos and Public Key Technologies
ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO) and the Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)
The Component Object Model (COM) and COM+
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Active Server Pages (ASPs)

UNDERSTANDING MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000 DISTRIBUTED SERVICES offers a technically precise yet high-level overview of the Windows DNA technologies and more to explain how the distributed services integrated into Windows 2000 allow development of powerful multitier enterprise solutions.