Chapter 7 -- Advanced Properties and Values

Chapter 7

Advanced Properties and Values

In the previous chapter I described how to read data from and write data to Active Directory using ADSI. In this chapter, I'll show you a set of interfaces you can use to manipulate directory objects locally through the property cache. I'll describe how to work with the details of properties, their types, and the values they contain. Later in the chapter, in keeping with the data access theme, I'll describe how C and C++ developers can access Active Directory objects directly with the IDirectoryObject interface.

To avoid confusion over terminology in this chapter, I refer to Active Directory data as properties since the data is represented by ADSI COM objects using COM data types. When working directly with Active Directory using C or C++ data types and structures, the term attributes is more appropriate.