1.4 Relationship to Other Protocols

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The DCOM Remote Protocol is built on top of Remote Procedure Call Protocol Extensions, as specified in [MS-RPCE]. As described in section 2.1, the DCOM Remote Protocol uses additional buffer space at the beginning of the RPC PDU body for passing out-of-band data that is not part of the method call signature.

The following protocols are layered above the DCOM Remote Protocol:

  • Windows Client Certificate Enrollment Protocol (as specified in [MS-WCCE]).

  • Component Object Model Plus (COM+) Protocol (as specified in [MS-COM]).

  • Disk Management Remote Protocol (as specified in [MS-DMRP]).

  • Virtual Disk Service (VDS) Protocol (as specified in [MS-VDS]).

  • Windows Management Instrumentation Remote Protocol (as specified in [MS-WMI]).