Automating Advanced MTS Administration with Visual Basic

The scriptable administration objects can be used to configure clients and roles, export packages, and access the names of collections and properties supported by the catalog. The following topics provide a procedure and Visual Basic version 5.0 sample code using methods on the scriptable administration objects to automate the following administrative tasks:

• Automating Access to MTS Related Collection Names
• Automating Access to MTS Property Information
• Automating MTS Role Configuration
• Automating MTS Package Export
• Automating Configuration of an MTS Client to Use Remote Components
• Automating MTS Package Property Updates on Remote Servers