The following document is starting to expore the authentication mechanisms that will be supported for domain management in terms of the back end infrastructure we will authenticate against (The protocol side will be discussed seperately).

Management API Security Authentication Mechanisms

I am starting this thread so we start to explore how we can achieve this while re-using as much of the integration code for the server integration as we can whilst working with the requirements for domain management security and in an environment where there is no running server although we do have msc available for the management of services that we need.

The bottom of the document is probably the key part where I start to outline a potential strategy for integration / re-use in addition to adding the domain management specifics.