Learn to use Active Directory to manage user accounts. Excerpt:
One of the most common programming activities that most
developers will perform against Active Directory and ADAM is
user account management. Active Directory user management is
fairly straightforward once we know all of the basic rules.
However, there are many interesting rules and behaviors
concerning how attribute values in Active Directory are used to
determine how user objects behave in Windows. In order to get
the results we want, it is important to learn these rules and
behaviors. We try to demonstrate most of them. To a lesser
extent, we also investigate user account management in ADAM.
ADAM is very similar to Active Directory in most respects, but
it has a few significant differences worth pointing out.