Summary

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Summary

This chapter explored the various resource management administrative functions ADSI enables you to manipulate using programmatic methods .

Using the IADsFileService, IADsFileServiceOperations, and IADsFileShare interfaces, you can easily enumerate and manage file shares for any machine in the enterprise. Add in the IADsSession and IADsCollection interfaces, and you can manage user sessions programmatically.

To manage print operations, you can easily use the IADsPrintQueue, IADsPrintQueueOperations, IADsPrintJob, and IADsPrintJobOperations interfaces to create applications to perform such duties .

With a bit of creativity and careful thought about what administrative functions affect your time the most each day, a quick ADSI script may be just the recipe needed to get you home before dinner.

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