<div class="content"><p>The Update Agent Management Protocol uses DCOM as its
transport layer. It provides a set of types and interfaces that allow callers
to manage an <span><a href="750e8355-177c-4a51-bab8-927c813819c8#gt_362092cf-7fb5-43eb-92e1-c3e4affdd92b" data-linktype="relative-path">update agent</a></span> and to
invoke some update agent operations, such as an update search.</p><p>Sections 1.5, 1.8, 1.9, 2, and 3 of this specification are
normative. All other sections and examples in this specification are
informative.</p></div>