Chapter 16. Directory Services

IN THIS CHAPTER

Microsoft Windows 2000 first introduced the concept of Active Directory (AD) to the Microsoft product family. With Active Directory on the scene, Windows 2000 was capable of providing a consistent and standard way of storing and referencing network resources. This chapter focuses on the System.DirectoryServices namespace, which consists of classes that encapsulate and abstract Active Directory objects and operations. This namespace will allow you to query and modify directory entries through a small set of classes ...

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