About Server Data Objects
The Server Data Objects (SDO) API provides a way to programmatically configure the Internet Authentication Service (IAS) on computers running Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or newer.
The topics in this section describe the following concepts.
With the SDO API, a developer can manipulate any element of the IAS configuration that is accessible through the IAS user interface.
The SDO API also makes it possible to set or retrieve any of the values accessible through the user dial-in settings property page.
The SDO API is composed of COM interfaces. Each of the interfaces in the SDO API inherits from the COM IDispatch interface. The IDispatch interface enables developers to call the SDO interface methods from Visual Basic or any COM automation client, as well as from C/C++.
Developers can also call the SDO API from scripting languages such as VBScript. However, because VBScript is limited to using VARIANT-type parameters only, not all the functionality of SDO is available.
The SDO API is not supported on operating systems prior to Windows 2000, such as Windows NT 4.0.
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