Who Should Read This Book?
As with many of the books in the Cookbook series, the Active Directory Cookbook can be useful to
anyone who has to deploy, administer, or automate Active Directory.
This book can serve as a great reference for those who have to work
with Active Directory on a day-to-day basis. And because of all the
programming samples, this book can be really beneficial to
programmers who want to get a jumpstart on performing certain tasks
in an application. For those without much programming background, the
VBScript and Perl solutions are straightforward and should be pretty
easy to follow and expand on.
The companion to this book, Active Directory,
Second Edition from O'Reilly, is a
great choice for those wanting a thorough description of the core
concepts behind Active Directory, how to design an Active Directory
infrastructure, and how to automate that infrastructure using Active
Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) and Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI). Active Directory,
Second Edition does not describe how to accomplish every
possible task within Active Directory; that is the purpose of this
book. These two books, along with the supplemental information
described in Recipe 1.5, should be
sufficient to answer most questions you have about Active Directory.
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