Entegrity Solutions provides scheduled classroom training for DCE and DFS administrators and programmers at east coast (Boston) and west coast (San Jose) centers.
Scheduled classes are also available in Europe and Asia (contact Entegrity DCE Sales for information). Onsite training or training in the UK can also be arranged.

Improve productivity by learning DCE and DFS from experienced instructors who have years of experience in the subject area.

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Objectives

This is a technical course which investigates why an organisation would want to use DCE and its advantages. Each component of DCE is examined and the relationship of the components discussed. The features of DCE and how they can be used in a practical environment are discussed. This course is an essential starting point for anyone considering DCE's suitability for their environment or considering developing applications in DCE. The course does not cover DFS in any detail. 

What You Will Learn

• DCE Architecture
• Concepts of threaded applications
• How Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) work
• Why you would want to use RPCs
• Concepts of the Cell Directory Service (CDS)
• How CDS works and when to use it
• Concepts of the Distributed Time Service (DTS)
• How DTS is configured and why you need to use it
• Concepts of the Security Service
• Why security is important and how DCE handles network security
• How applications use DCE

Course Topics

• Introduction to DCE Architecture
• The Threads facility
• The DCE Remote Procedure Call mechanism
• The Cell Directory Service
• The Time Service
• The Security Service
• DCE Applications

Content Detail

DCE Architecture

• What is Distributed Computing?
• What do we need to do Distributed Computing?
• What DCE provides
• The DCE Cell
• The OSF and the DCE technologies

Threads

• What are threads for?
• When to use them
• Implementation

Remote Procedure Calls

• How RPCs work in DCE
• The Interface between Client and Server
• Searching the namespace
• Object UUIDs

The Cell Directory Service

• What is it for?
• The Cell namespace
• Implementation
• A CDS lookup
• Global Directory Services

The Distributed Time Service

• What is DTS for?
• How DTS works
• Types of Servers

The Security Service

• What is it for?
• The components
• The Registry
• Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• Kerberos

DCE Applications

• Your applications
• The Distributed File System
• Other DCE applications

Course Close

• Course review
• A DCE lookup
• Who has implemented DCE
• Further Information