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ADSI Section ADSI abstracts the capabilities of directory services from different network providers to present a single set of directory service interfaces for accessing and managing network resources. Administrators and developers can use ADSI services to enumerate and manage resources in a directory service, no matter which network environment contains the resource. This can be an LDAP-based, NDS-based, or NTDS-based directory.
In this article, Robert Chartier shows how to use the System.DirectoryServices Class for some simple User and Group administration tasks with impersonation. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Remie Bolte further demonstrates the power of ADSI with code that renames users, changes user properties, changes user boundaries, and creates, populates, and removes user groups. [Read This Article][Top]
Remie Bolte uses his popular Adding Users to W2K code sample as a basis for introducing and exploring Microsoft's Active Directory Services Interface. [Read This Article][Top]
The power of Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) and the Microsoft .NET Framework is introduced by Tony Caudill. After completing this article you will be able to easily tame the System.DirectoryServices Namespace and use ADSI services to programatically create, delete, and update all aspects of your Web farm's virtual directories. [Read This Article][Top]
ADSI Part II describes and demonstrations the power of ADSI by showing how to manipulate the NTLM database. Examples in this article show how to add a user to a domain, delete the user, add a group, and add the user to the group. There is also a discussion on security and an overview of the Group, User and Domain ADSI objects. [Read This Article][Top]
Have you wanted to add virtual roots through VBScript? Create ISAPI server extensions that install themselves in IIS 4.0? Or script the installation of your entire web site including user permissions? You can do this and more with ADSI. [Read This Article][Top]
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Although ADSI is a valuable development tool, there are a few things you'll need to be aware of when you start to use it: Paul Fright and Nick Browne share the benefits of their experiences of ADSI development. [Read The Article]
This article by Tom Moran and Jeff Sandquist introduces you to Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI). They show how to validate a user as a member of a privileged group. Then they will prepare a form that populates a list box with the usernames of everyone in another user group. The form will allow you to pick a user, and pick privileges for that user's new virtual directory. [Read This Article]
Microsoft has delivered guidelines to software developers and Independent
software vendors for creating applications that integrate with the Active
Directory services of Windows NT Server 5.0. [Read This Article]
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