Professional ADSI Programming- Active Directory Services Interface

by Simon Robinson

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.

774 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1999

About the author

With three decades of experience in customer experience design, Simon is an internet pioneer and award-winning innovator, having co-founded British Telecom’s Genie Internet, the world’s first mobile internet portal, and contributing to the design and launch of the world’s first smart phones. He is the CEO (Worldwide) of Holonomics, co-founder of the Deep Tech Network, a Harvard Business Review author, and coauthor of Deep Tech and the Amplified Organisation, Customer Experiences with Soul: A New Era in Design and Holonomics: Business Where People and Planet Matter. Simon is respected globally for his contributions to customer experience strategy and Deep Tech, having created numerous design methods and frameworks such as the New 4Ps and the Holonomic Circle.