Developing LDAP and ADSI Clients for Microsoft Exchange

Focusing specifically on Microsoft's implementation of the LDAP protocol, Developing LDAP and ADSI Clients for Microsoft(r) Exchange presents essential technical information and real-world techniques for building LDAP and Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) clients for Microsoft(r) Exchange 5.x servers. It provides extensive code examples that demonstrate the protocol in action. The accompanying CD-ROM is the most comprehensive collection of LDAP resources available containing high-level utility libraries and reusable applications that can be embedded directly into your own applications.

You will find an overview of LDAP fundamentals, including the X.500 Directory standard, LDAP versions 2 and 3, and the C LDAP API. The book goes well beyond these basics and details how native LDAP maps into ADSI objects, methods, and properties. It walks you step-by-step through the process of writing LDAP and ADSI clients for Windows and Exchange, using sample applications for each technology that highlight their similarities and differences. This resource gives you the experience-based knowledge and software tools you need to put LDAP to work in a Microsoft environment.

Table of contents

Preface

Part I: Foundations

Chapter 1: Theoretical and Technical Background

1.1 X.500: The Directory and Directory Service

1.2 ASN.1: Abstract Syntax Notation One

1.3 BER: Basic Encoding Rules

1.4 LDAP Transport

Chapter 2: LDAP Overview

2.1 The History of LDAP

2.2 LDAP Version 2

2.3 LDAP Version 3

2.4 The Future of LDAP

Part II: Programming Interfaces

Chapter 3: The C LDAP API

3.1 A Test Application Framework

3.2 LDAP and Exchange Server 5.5

3.3 The Idap_go Sample Application

Chapter 4: LDAP and the Active Directory

4.1 Active Directory Service Interfaces

4.2 The adsi_go Sample Application

Part III Reusable Samples

Chapter 5: Writing Expert LDAP Clients

5.1 Idap_lib: A High-Level LDAP Client Library

5.2 Idap ex: An LDAP Directory Explorer

Chapter 6: Writing Expert ADSI Clients

6.1 adsi lib: A High-Level ADSI Client Library

6.2 adsi ex: An ADSI Directory Explorer

Chapter 7: Putting It All Together

7.1 LDAP versus ADSI

7.2 The LDAP Development Environment

7.3 The ADSI Development Environment

7.4 Applying LDAP and ADSI

7.5 That's All, Folks!

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