Summary

In this chapter you learned how to open an Active Directory Security Interface (ADSI) session and how to bind to a domain or other objects with one of several directory services. You also learned about several of the core object classes available within the ADSI interface. You used these object classes to build a utility application that allowed you to display all the users and groups in a particular domain.

In the next chapter, you'll be building on what you learned in this chapter, learning about more of the ADSI object classes and how to extract the security configuration of each. You'll also learn how to use ADO to search a directory for a specific object for which you don't know the path. There's quite a lot still to come, so turn ...

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