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Research Architecture from an IT Perspective

Since the Research task pane is built into Microsoft® Office 2003, it does not require any customization. From a network perspective, all communications take place over HTTP (using XML, or, more specifically, SOAP), so no special firewall configuration is required. Research services can be hosted internally or externally.

The following sections describe the architecture from the perspective of IT professionals concerned with how the Research task pane functionality fits within their existing IT infrastructure.

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