Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Active Directory / Identity Programming Goodness

 

Active Directory / Identity Programming Goodness

Doug M. recently asked me about this:

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There are two areas that I’m interested in learning more about at this time: Active Directory/LDAP and Identity Management. For both, I’d like to get some resources that explain the basics in detail as well as  examples of code in C#.

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I am certainly no AD expert so I pinged some internal folks and came across Donovan Follette.  He rocks!  Check out his blog at:  http://blogs.msdn.com/donovanf/

Here was his answer to the question:

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Here are links that get to a few of the best whitepapers, articles and resources for programming directory services in .NET.

· Programming with SDS.ActiveDirectory: http://blogs.msdn.com/donovanf/archive/2007/02/12/net-programming-with-system-directoryservices-activedirectory-sds-ad.aspx (sample code download link on blog post)

· Programming with SDS.AccountManagement: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb552843.aspx (sample code available with article)

· Programming with SDS.Protocols: http://blogs.msdn.com/donovanf/archive/2007/04/02/net-programming-with-system-directoryservices-protocols-sds-p.aspx (sample code download link on blog post)

· Directory Programming .NET (URL http://directoryprogramming.net) for expert insight into AD, AD LDS (formerly ADAM) and AD FS, visit this forum.

· The best book available is A .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming by Joe Kaplan and Ryan Dunn.

· Lastly, www.microsoft.con/geneva has a collection of identity-related whitepapers with respect to the future of our identity platform based on the Microsoft code name “Geneva” collection of components announced at PDC.

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Yeah baby!!!  Great stuff!

Published Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:52 PM by zainnab

Is This Thing On? : Active Directory / Identity Programming Goodness

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