ADSI ASP Programmer's Reference

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Summary: An excellent tutorial for using ADSI with ASP
Review: ADSI ASP Programmer's Reference covers all the basic capabilities of ADSI. It also ties in those with working examples that tie to Exchange (LDAP), IIS, and WinNT. The numerous examples are well explained and clear. Most of the information is available from Internet sources, but ADSI ASP Programmer's Reference brings all that information in to a convenient book. A definite must have for starting and intermediate ADSI programmers.

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Summary: Dated but usefull
Review: I wasn't expecting much from this book but it showed quite a few tricks when dealing with LDAP, CDO, and other built in features of Windows 2000. This book refers to Windows 2000 beta versions, but most examples will work.

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Summary: Bravo!!
Review: Read this book and use it as a desk reference regularly. The only grip I have with the book is the images are bad. The resolution is way off and you can't tell what they are showing you unless you've seen it before. Other than that the code examples are down and dirty. You can find what you want quickly and take a culmination of a couple examples to build what you want quickly. I recommend this book to anyone who is going to do development with ADSI and even Site Server.

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Summary: Great book for those new to ADSI
Review: Starts from the beginning and builds to some fairly complicated pages. Easy to read and doesn't dwell on the useless stuff. Gives you what you need to know and allows you to get started fast, which is always useful for the busy Sys Admin.

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Summary: Good book, but I was disappointed
Review: This book has some really great code in it, but it's missing a lot of stuff that I personally find important. I was looking for code to help me write administrator pages to allow my users to manage their own web sites. It had a little bit of useful code for that, but the majority of the code is for managing your Network and Network users remotely through IIS.

It's a good book to add to your collection. And it's perfect for Network administrators who need to write customized Network administration code for off-site management of their network, but the information on administering IIS is sparse.

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Summary: Good book, but I was disappointed
Review: This book has some really great code in it, but it's missing a lot of stuff that I personally find important. I was looking for code to help me write administrator pages to allow my users to manage their own web sites. It had a little bit of useful code for that, but the majority of the code is for managing your Network and Network users remotely through IIS.

It's a good book to add to your collection. And it's perfect for Network administrators who need to write customized Network administration code for off-site management of their network, but the information on administering IIS is sparse.

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Summary: Out of date - but a good secondary tool
Review: This book was written when Windows 2000 was still in beta, and is specifically geared towards ADSI 2.0 - not ADSI 2.5, which is what is out and in use today. Given that, this book makes reference to, and shows examples for many commands no longer supported by Microsoft and no longer in use on Windows 2000 (as well as never having been utilized in NT4). The book is a little light, being only about 300 pages, and could use more example code, and fewer background / history lessons. Unlike typical reference books, this book is presented in much more of a mini guide-to-lots-of-stuff, with the true reference-style documentation being primarily in the appendix.

Although I have used this book as a learning tool, it remains a secondary book to me, and I can see it sitting on the shelf neglected as there are better true reference books out there.

Rating:
Summary: Out of date - but a good secondary tool
Review: This book was written when Windows 2000 was still in beta, and is specifically geared towards ADSI 2.0 - not ADSI 2.5, which is what is out and in use today. Given that, this book makes reference to, and shows examples for many commands no longer supported by Microsoft and no longer in use on Windows 2000 (as well as never having been utilized in NT4). The book is a little light, being only about 300 pages, and could use more example code, and fewer background / history lessons. Unlike typical reference books, this book is presented in much more of a mini guide-to-lots-of-stuff, with the true reference-style documentation being primarily in the appendix.

Although I have used this book as a learning tool, it remains a secondary book to me, and I can see it sitting on the shelf neglected as there are better true reference books out there.