Re: RDS and MSRemote

From: Brian Muth (bmuth_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:41:17 -0800

Do you need to traverse firewalls? This is an important question. Both RDS
and Web Services are essentially technologies meant to to be firewall
friendly. I assume this is not a requirement since I'm pretty sure you would
have mentioned it otherwise.

If not, then I would strongly suggest using WMI. This is very friendly from
a scripting point of view, and very powerful. If you visit
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/default.mspx you
will see lots of examples of how this technology works.

HTH

Brian

"Edward" <ECevallos@aol.com> wrote in message
news:2D89B727-C8E4-4E27-8B10-8380BF0287C4@microsoft.com...
> I currently have a few databases which are snapshots of our AD
environment, from which we can run reports based on different queries. My
problem is that I'm currently developing a page to access all event logs
from the domain controllers which are fed to a SQL database. I'm trying to
retrieve a disconnected recordset from the server and pass it to the client
so if I say sort by eventcode I don't have to hit the server again for the
new query. I've seen different posts about using RDS/MSRemote but have also
found that they are obsolete. My question is, are there other technologies
that I can use for retrieving remote data from an Access/SQL database
without having to requery the server for any criteria selections made by the
client> No data is being updated here so returning the recordset to the
server is of no concern to me. I've looked into SOAP but it seems like it
will also become obsolete 7/1/04 to make way for WebServices. Is XML the
only way I can do this without opening security holes? Also, I've tried RDS
and MSRemote and I keep getting this "Internet Server Error" everytime it
tries to connect to the server. I researched the MSADC directory and
registered unsafe handling as well as created the virtual directory. No
luck. Could someone please provide some assistance? Thank you in advance!

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