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What is this collaboration host icon that shows up on my tray...

If you are developing to the peer to peer collaboration APIs you may see a tray icon appear when you first use the APIs. This is the collaboration host (the process name is p2phost.exe, and it is a user mode process). p2phost.exe is responsible for listening for incoming invitations, and for popping up UI asking the user to authorize the launch of an application. In addition, you would be able to opt in and out of people near me publication.

Published Monday, September 19, 2005 11:49 AM by ravirao

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# re: What is this collaboration host icon that shows up on my tray...

Does each application that sign's in, get its own p2phost.exe? When an application calls PeerCollabSignin, it appears to affect the p2phost's sign-in settings.
Monday, September 26, 2005 5:14 PM by Adrian Moore

# re: What is this collaboration host icon that shows up on my tray...

p2phost.exe is a user process, and is shared by all applications. The idea is that the list of people located near me is common across all applications. So, instead of having every application maintain this cache, p2phost.exe does it for all applications.

So, p2phost.exe's signin settings are affected by the calling application. Our general recommendation is that you first call PeerCollabGetSigninOptions(), and then follow that up with setting the signin options if you need to. Otherwise, you are already signed in, and you can just start using the framework.
Monday, September 26, 2005 10:50 PM by ravirao

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