Purpose
The Remote X/Open Directory Services Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol is used by legacy mail clients to access Active Directory. These methods are described in the rxds interface and allow interactions with a directory.
Note It is recommended that clients running newer versions of Windows use the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) instead of rxds. Therefore, it is unlikely that the server will ever receive calls to these methods.
Microsoft Remote Procedure Call manages most tasks associated with network protocols and communication. For information about how to use RPC to create distributed client/server programs in Windows and in heterogeneous environments, see Remote Procedure Call in the MSDN Library.
For Microsoft licensing information, see Published Protocols and Royalty-Free License on Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN).
For more information on LDAP, see:
Contents
This documentation contains the following:
- What's New
A description of new and updated material since the last release.
- rxds
A description of the rxds interface, including the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) used to identify the proper interface during RPC binding, and the RPC endpoint at which the method calls are received. The methods that can be implemented on the server are described, including the RPC opnum field value used to identify a method during an RPC request and to specify its ordinal position in the related Interface Definition Language (IDL) file. Each method's marshaled parameters, data structures, bit flag values, and type definitions are also listed.
- General Information
Information for use when working with protocol documentation, for example descriptions of common data types and a glossary of terms.