The Component Services view enables you to manage COM+ applications and components for your installation package. You can manage both COM+ server applications and application proxies. A COM+ application proxy consists of a subset of the attributes of the server application, and it enables remote access from a client machine to the machine where the application resides.

COM+ server applications can be installed on only Windows 2000 operating systems and later. COM+ application proxies can be installed on any operating system that supports distributed component object model (DCOM); this includes machines that are running Windows NT or Windows 9x if DCOM is also installed. However, if DCOM is not installed, the application proxy will not work.

Include a COM+ application in your project by selecting its check box. When you make your selection, the configurations associated with that COM+ application populate the InstallShield custom tables for component services, and custom actions for installing and uninstalling COM+ applications are sequenced in your .ism project.

When you clear a COM+ application check box, you remove the COM+ application from your project, along with the configurations and custom actions for installing and uninstalling the application.

See the Help Library topic Component Services View for procedures on configuring properties and to view related help topics.