ADSI ASP Programmers Reference

Almost all commonly available directory services share a common root in the X500 directory services protocol and yet until recently, no one took advantage of that fact and presented the IT world with a way to utilise this fact and create applications which could span across directories on different platforms.

With the COM-based Active Directory Service Interfaces however, Microsoft have presented us with a set of programming tools that allows us not only to access any directory service with an ADSI implementation (six at the moment) but also to create programs for that purpose in almost any current programming script or language.

ADSI ASP Programmer's Reference takes you through the whole range of ADSI's capabilities teaching you how to build up a complete set of web pages that could allow a system administrator to run a domain almost entirely away from his desk simply by firing up an internet browser. Learn how to create, manipulate and delete users and user groups, print queues, NT services, web applications and mail servers with a simple ASP page.

Summary of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 : Getting Started
• Chapter 2 : Basic Tools
• Chapter 3 : The Domain Object
• Chapter 4 : User Management
• Chapter 5 : Group Management
• Chapter 6 : Looking at Services
• Chapter 7 : File Service Management
• Chapter 8 : Printer Controls
• Chapter 9 : Securing IIS for ADSI
• Chapter 10: Accessing Web Services in IIS
• Chapter 11: Introduction to LDAP
• Chapter 12: ADSI and Exchange Server
• Chapter 13: The Future – Active Directory
• Appendix A : ADSI Objects, Properties and Methods
• Appendix B : ADSI Error Messages
• Appendix C : ADSI Status Codes
• Appendix D : WinNT Schema
• Appendix E : WinNT Custom Properties
• Appendix F : The Scenario Include Files
• Appendix G : Interesting RFCs