1.5 Prerequisites/Preconditions

The client that uses the protocol possesses valid credentials that are recognized by the server accepting the client requests. The client uses security providers that recognize such credentials to authenticate to the remote server by using the Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI), which is supported by the Remote Procedure Call Protocol Extensions, as specified in [MS-RPCE].

The server system is started with the DCOM Remote Protocol activation service fully initialized before the activation request. The client is configured to receive activation requests from the server if it wants to call the service asynchronously, as specified in section 4.4.

An implementation of the DCOM Remote Protocol, as specified in [MS-DCOM], needs to be available.