Whats known as “ADSI” or “Active Directory Service Interface” ?
Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI) is used to add new users, modify attributes and browse Active Directory, as well as other activities. You can use ADSI to govern the lifecycle of abstract directory objects (such as computers and user groups) as well as access these objects, even if they are located on a different operating system. Using ADSI, you can update user information from a Web page and distribute it across a multi-operating system network. ADSI uses the capabilities of directory services from different network providers to present a single set of directory service interfaces for accessing and managing network resources. You can use ADSI services to number and manage resources in a directory service, regardless of which network environment contains the resource. This can be an LDAP-based, NDS-based, or NTDS-based directory. ADSI is a standard Windows-based interface for meta-directory applications. A meta-directory is a high-level network directory service designed to u
