How to discover services using Active Directory?

I would like to add server discovery to a .Net application. This is so that I can change the servers available for the client to talk to, without rolling out new versions of the application itself.

I work for a large organisat开发者_运维技巧ion, and different departments may want to expose their own services. AD seems ideal for this from an organisational point of view.

Whereabouts in AD should I store this sort of thing? Is there a standard protocol for doing this? It's not something I've done before.

Usually you would use service connection points for this. Here's a couple links to get you started:

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961722.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms675764(VS.85).aspx