full-disclosure - FW: The U.S. State Department needs "DCOMbobula tor"

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From: dennisc at kdoc.dc.state.ks.us (Dennis Cooper)
Subject: FW: The U.S. State Department needs "DCOMbobula
	tor" 

>From the M$ blurb on disabling DCOM, It appears to NOT be needed.
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=825750

"Warning If you disable DCOM, may you may lose operating system
functionality. After you disable support for DCOM, the following may result:
Any COM objects that can be activated remotely may not function correctly.

The local COM+ snap-in will not be able to connect to remote servers to
enumerate their COM+ catalog.
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) queries against remote servers may
not function correctly."

Dennis Cooper 
MSST III
Kansas Department of Corrections
Kansas Correctional Industries

-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:48 AM
To: Richard M. Smith
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] The U.S. State Department needs
"DCOMbobulator" 

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:12:12 EDT, "Richard M. Smith"
<rms@...puterbytesman.com>  said:

> For most Windows users, I bet that the only time DCOM ever gets used, if
> at all, is to run worms like MSBlaster and Welchia. 

Isn't DCOM needed for the WindowsUpdate stuff to work?  Or am I
misremembering?