Professional ADSI Programming

This book :

• Places ADSI in context - looking in detail at the kinds of problems that ADSI has been designed to solve.
  
• Examines what exactly directories are and how they are structured.
  
• Covers Microsoft Management Console (MMC), the Windows Installer, and Windows Management Instrumentation(WMI).
  
• Includes chapters on Authentication and Authorization with ADSI and how the Kerberos security protocols work.
  
• Develops a full blown ADSI application
  

This book is aimed at developers who are familiar with programming in their own language, but who want a sufficient understanding of directories and administration to be able to code up software that smoothly integrates with the new technologies in Windows 2000. Knowledge of developer-type topics - for example that you understand explaining, for example, how Windows 2000 domains or what COM is about - is assumed. But when it comes to Kerberos security works, these are examined from scratch.

As far as language is concerned, examples are presented in C++, VB, VBA and ASP (using VB Script) depending on whichever language is most appropriate for the particular task at hand.

Table of contents

Introduction

Section 1: ADSI Basics

Chapter 1: What On Earth Is ADSI?

Chapter 2: Simple ADSI Clients

Chapter 3: Further Inside ADSI

Section 2: Applying ADSI

Chapter 4: Your Computer Network and ADSI

Chapter 5: Common Administrative Tasks with Active Directory and WinNT

Chapter 6: ADSI and BackOff ice: Exchange Server, IIS, Site Server

Chapter 7: Searching

Chapter 8: Security

Chapter 9: Writing a Provider

Chapter 10: LDAP

Chapter 11: Advanced ADSI Topics

Section 3: Writing Directory Enabled Applications

Chapter 12: Administering Applications: Microsoft Management Console

Chapter 13: Windows Installer

Chapter 14: Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

Appendix

Index