Windows 2000 is just around the corner, and with it a new buzzword: Directory Enabled Applications. Microsoft is relentlessly pushing its goal of making applications as simple for the end user as possible, and that means big changes are coming for the way that applications share and access data with each other and with the operating system. In short, if any item of data is likely to be of interest to more than one application, then it should be stored in a directory. The directory should have a single, unified means of access from different applications, and - at least in Windows - the recommended means of access is through the Active Directory Services Interfaces (ADSI). Professional ADSI Programming is for anyone who wants to learn about ADSI and use it to program clients and providers, but it is also about more than that. It's about writing commercial applications that will look professional and meet the expectations of your end-users in the days of Windows 2000.
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This book is aimed at developers who are familiar with programming in their own language, but who want a sufficient understanding of directories and administration to be able to code up software that smoothly integrates with the new technologies in Windows 2000. Knowledge of developer-type topics - for example that you understand what COM is about - is assumed. But when it comes to explaining, for example, how Windows 2000 domains or Kerberos security works, these are examined from scratch.
About the Author
Dr. Simon Robinson is a former academic who specialized in post-doctorate computational physics & mathematical modeling. A C++ programmer of 8 years, he is now a 50% programmer and 50% evaluation / researcher for Lucent. A recognized expert in COM/DCOM/ATL, ADSI, Internet Locator Server and Netscape Directory Server.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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The ADSI Bible!,
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This review is from: Professional ADSI Programming- Active Directory Services Interface (Paperback)
If you are programming directory-enabled applications/COM+ objects, this book is your salvation. Robinson makes it easy to learn the basics about directories, and what they can do for you. It has a lot of great information on how to program the Active Directory in Win2k, as well as IIS and Windows NT. If you need to use ADSI, you need this book. Well done.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Better borrowed than bought !,
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This review is from: Professional ADSI Programming- Active Directory Services Interface (Paperback)
Its not a bad book if you are trying to get an overview of ADSI and have no prior experience with it but its certainly not the "professional" book it claims to be. The code snippets are amateurish. The editing is slipshod and there are several ambiguous sentences and even occasional grammatical errors. The code samples show you the very obvious things that you could learn by experimenting with the interfaces yourself. The author somehow does not seem to trust the intelligence of his readers and makes the samples repetitive - there are atleast a dozen samples that just iterate through various collection classes and spew stuff into a webpage. He also breaks off into frequent discourses about COM and ADO that are rather elementary. It would have instead been reasonable for him to just proceed on the presumption that we knew our basics on these subjects. Still its not a bad book for a novice to skim through.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Touches On the Vastness of ADSI,
This review is from: Professional ADSI Programming- Active Directory Services Interface (Paperback)
This book provides a little of everything that is ADSI. From programming in Visual Basic, to Scripting, to C+. And from Active Directory, to LDAP, to Microsoft Management Console. I would recommend this book if you know alot about programming, a little about ADSI, and you are looking for sign posts to direct you along the way.The main thing I garnered from this book is how many areas are directly or indirectly effected by ADSI. ADSI is not just for Microsoft Active Directory; ADSI supports LDAP and Novell NDS directories as well. ADSI can be accessed using Microsoft COM+, OLE DB, or even ODBC. This book touches on each of these access methods, but not in great depth. For instance, the section on ADSI and Exchange Server, IIS, and Site Server, is a scant 30 pages. "Professional ADSI Programming" is ideally suited as a roadmap to guide you to specific areas of ADSI development. You will need specific references, such as Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), to provide the detail absent from this book. At times the author gets side tracked from the topic he is trying to cover. This is more the fault of the editor than the author.
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