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Monday, January 23, 2006

How to Allow Schwab Portfolio Center

There are two components to making Schwab Performance Technologies Portfolio Center work with ISA 2004, 1 workstation and 1 server. Portfolio Center uses DCOM to communicate between the clients and the server. DCOM must be allowed on both ends for it to work. This means changing the firewall configuration on both the workstation and the server.

On the workstation you need to allow DCOM through the XP SP2 firewall. Schwab has created a little utility that you can download from the support tools site on their website here. You'll need your customer ID.

On the server, we've also got to allow DCOM communications. By default ISA 2004 is configured with strict RPC compliance in the system policy. This will have to be turned off. Open the ISA Management MMC, Click on Firewall Policy. Click View, System Policy. The System Policy will be displayed above the Firewall Policy. Look for the system policy item called Allow RPC from ISA to Trusted Servers. Right click on it and select edit System Policy. Uncheck Enforce Strict RPC Compliance. This will allow the DCOM communications between the workstations and the server that Portfolio Center requires.

3 Comments:

At 1:43 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for this posting. Very helpful for a tech.

 
At 9:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Amy, you are technically over my head, but I'm trying to find out if Schwab's "Portfolio Center" software will run well enough on a Mac Pro for a non-techie like me to do it. Schwab says it will run, but they don't support it.

Thanks for any thoughts,

Fred

 
At 10:57 AM, Blogger Amy - Harbor Computer Services said...

Fred - Schwab has excellent technical support. I can't imagine them saying "here's our Mac client, good luck". If you are referring to will it run on Windows on your Mac Pro, then yes it will but I can't speak to what the performance would be like.

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