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Active Directory, 3rd Edition
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Active Directory, 3rd Edition

by Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
January 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
832 pages
27h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 28. Using ADSI and ADO from ASP or VB

Two important features of Active Directory require administrators to create their own tools:

  • The ability to extend the Active Directory schema with your own classes and attributes, which allows you to store additional data with objects

  • The ability to delegate control of administration of Active Directory in a very detailed manner

If you take advantage of these, there is a large chance that you will want to provide customized tools for administration.

For example, you might decide that a group of users is to manage only certain properties of certain objects; for example, which users can go into a group. There is no point in giving them Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in; that's like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Why not create a tool of your own that only allows them to manipulate the values that they have permission to? If you then incorporate logging into a file or database within this application, you have a customized audit trail as well.

Tools of this nature do not lend themselves to VBScript because they tend to require a much more enhanced GUI interface. Consequently, you are left with three choices:

  • Write code in a compiled language like Visual Basic or VB.NET that supports complex GUI routines.

  • Write code for a web-based interface using HTML and Active Server Pages (ASPs) or using ASP.NET.

  • Write code in another scripting language such as Perl that supports complex graphical controls.

We will concentrate on the first two ...

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