Microsoft Project 2002: COM+ Settings Tool

The Microsoft Project 2002: COM+ Settings Tool is an operating system-level extension to standard COM that allows for numerous specialized security and performance settings on a standard COM object. Using Dllhost.exe, COM+ can also force the component to run in its own Process space instead of running in the same process space as the caller (which, in many cases, is Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) for Microsoft Project Server).

One feature of COM+ is that it allows Microsoft Project to specify a Microsoft Windows NT account for the object to run as. This is very Similar to the concept that a Windows NT service can be set to run as a particular user. This is the only COM+ feature that Microsoft Project uses. All other COM+ features are explicitly turned off.

Microsoft Project relies on Windows NT authorization for:

- Connection to Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
- Online analytical processing (OLAP), including cube creation and maintenance
- Administration of SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft, to Create subwebs and to add users