PRB: Application Center COM+ Applications Replicate to Different Folders

When you are using Application Center 2000 to deploy COM+ application components from a source computer to one or more target computers, it is possible that the COM+ components will be replicated to folders on the target computers that are different from the folder on the source computer where the COM+ components reside.

Application Center uses the COM+ administrative interfaces to replicate COM+ components. This is done to ensure the proper installation and registration of these components on target computers. When COM+ installs the COM+ components on the target computer, the components are installed into a default folder, which is %Program Files%\COMPlus Applications\[Application ID]>, where [Application ID] is the globally unique identifier (GUID) of the COM+ application that is being deployed.

For example, say you have a COM+ component that is named My_component.dll and that is stored in the folder C:\My_com_components\ on the source computer, and you host this component in a COM+ application that is named My_COM+_App, to which COM+ assigned an application ID of {961B406D-226A-4246-BDEE-6DE2D975B825} when the application was created. If you deploy My_COM+_App from the source computer to a target computer, then the component itself will not be located in the C:\My_com_components\ folder on the target computer. It will instead it will be located at %Program Files%\COMPlus Applications\{961B406D-226A-4246-BDEE-6DE2D975B825}\.

This behavior is by design.

This behavior should not affect the functionality of your applications. COM+ will handle loading your COM+ components based on the location that is registered with COM+.