<div class="content"><p> </p><p>This specification extends the DCE RPC Location Services
specification defined in the section &#34;Name Service Interface&#34; in Part
2 of <span><a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=89824" data-linktype="external">[C706]</a></span>. These
extensions add new capabilities to the DCE RPC Location Services Protocol and,
in some cases, place additional restrictions upon it. This specification
adheres to the abstract data model as specified in [C706] Part 2, but an
implementation of this specification will not interoperate with an
implementation of [C706] Part 2.</p><p>This document refers to the Windows implementation of the
DCE RPC Location services protocol as &#34;LocToLoc&#34;.</p><p>This document includes the following: </p><ul><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>An extension to provide RPC Location Services functionality in an
environment where a centrally accessible directory service like <span><a href="55ec267c-87d9-4d97-a9d5-5681f5f283b8#gt_e467d927-17bf-49c9-98d1-96ddf61ddd90" data-linktype="relative-path">Active
Directory</a></span> directory service is not available. For more details, see
Nondirectory mode in section <span><a href="dab3af12-2796-4ddf-8313-acba3e7e0dc7" data-linktype="relative-path">1.3.2</a></span>.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>An extension defining the implementation of the RPC Location
Services specification in an Active Directory environment. For more details,
see Directory-only mode in section 1.3.2.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>An extension enabling interoperable RPC Location Service
functionality between locators running outside an Active Directory environment,
and locators running inside an Active Directory environment. For more details,
see Directory mode in section 1.3.2.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>An extension of the syntax for <span><a href="55ec267c-87d9-4d97-a9d5-5681f5f283b8#gt_6cfe4abe-94bd-43b6-b666-3618d9093373" data-linktype="relative-path">name service entries</a></span>
to include a <span><a href="55ec267c-87d9-4d97-a9d5-5681f5f283b8#gt_b0276eb2-4e65-4cf1-a718-e0920a614aca" data-linktype="relative-path">domain</a></span> name. For
more details, see section <span><a href="99becf64-89ed-4bd8-adf0-470add859d15" data-linktype="relative-path">2.2.2</a></span>.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>A restriction requiring profile, group, and server attributes to
be defined on separate name service entries. These attributes are as specified
in section &#34;Name Service Attributes&#34; in [C706]. For more details, see
section <span><a href="e4d192da-2bf6-4649-9f9d-2b85531f614a" data-linktype="relative-path">1.3.3</a></span>.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>A restriction requiring clients to be members of an Active
Directory domain to support persistently storing exported name service entries.
For more details, see section 1.3.2.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>A restriction requiring clients to be members of an Active
Directory domain to support profile and group attributes. For more details, see
sections <span><a href="0e5a2e72-15b0-427f-98c7-52da389e734e" data-linktype="relative-path">3.2.1</a></span>, <span><a href="b265805b-4609-4087-a8eb-e583116a912c" data-linktype="relative-path">3.3.3</a></span>.</p>
</li></ul></div>