ADSI information and samples

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Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) is a set of COM (Common Object Model) programming Interfaces. Like ODBC, ADSI provides common access to directories by adding a provider for each directory protocol type.

Windows 2000 contains providers for: WinNT, LDAP and Novell NDS.

 

ADSI objects are COM objects, which represent objects in an underlying directory service. Objects can be container objects (like Folders) or Leaf objects (like Files). Each object has a unique ADSI path – a provider name followed by an object path. ADSI provides an abstract schema which describes the type of objects and attributes supported by each provider. Objects are read into cache when GetInfo or GetObject are called. Changes reside in cached memory on the client until a SetInfo is issued. SetInfo writes data back to the underlying directory store.

 

For more information and samples, visit: http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/adsi/