Roles and Groups

[Will]

I am going thru the MCSD course material for exam 70-310.
In chapter 3 there is an exercise dealing with COM+
security. In it I define a server component which is
limited to users with a role of "Authorized Users". I
have gone in, defined a User GROUP named "Authorized
Users" and have added myself to it, but I get an access
violation when I do so. Question is: Are Roles the same
as Groups, and if not, where do I define Roles?

 

[Roger Abell]

This is a developer question, not an XP security/admin one.
Roles are defined in your code. The roles are exposed to
administrators in Component Services, where they may place
accounts and/or groups in the roles.
If you can define a custom group, Authorized Users, but you
get a security violation error when you attempt to add your
account to the group, then you have a sick XP that has some
strange problem.