Rating: 
Summary: Flawed by a lack of focus
Review: There is a lot of good AD information in this book, but a lack of focus makes you wade through too much extraneous information. The author continually get sidetracked, for instance two pages are spent discussing Visual Basic's On Error mechanism and a straightforward error reporting function; a full page on how C++ handles strings with _TCHAR; too much time explaining Windows Scripting Host, including emphasis boxes; etc. This 417 page book could have imparted the same AD knowledge in about 300 pages.Finally, my plea to all future authors - enough with the 5-20 page explanation of COM. If someone is not a COM developer yet, your mini-thesis is not going to make the difference. There are plenty of excellent texts for new developers. This author takes it to the extreme, continually going over fundamental COM issues (BSTR's, FAILED(), etc.) throughout the book. Choose a target audience, preferrably a COM knowledgeable developer, and focus all explanations on that target audience. All that being said, it's not a bad book, it just pressed all my personal hot buttons repeatedly.
Rating: 
Summary: Starter set of instructions
Review: This book provided a good overview of the general issues and gave a lot of examples for VB and C++ programmers. Would have been much more helpful if a quick reference card was provided to show the ADSI and LDAP object models with all of the available properties, attributes, etc.
Rating: 
Summary: First look at Active Directory
Review: This is an expert guide with excellent examples. I would have
liked sample code in one language. Not enough information on COM
(BSTR) and LDAP.
Rating:
Summary: First look at Active Directory
Review: This is an expert guide with excellent examples. I would have
liked sample code in one language. Not enough information on COM
(BSTR) and LDAP.
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