ADSI in the CML Application

Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) provides a COM interface to Exchange directory objects. The CML application uses ADSI to extract information from the F & M Exchange directory. This data, the name, phone number, and so on, is added to the SQL Server borrower table. The CML application does not add, change, or delete any information in Exchange.

How the CML application benefits from using ADSI:

• ADSI allows the application to populate SQL Server tables with information from Exchange directories. The employees of F & M Corporation do not have to enter information about themselves and the information is in-sync throughout the organization.
• Given that ADSI is a set of COM objects it can easily be used within VBScript or JavaScript to directory-enable your Web-based applications. Administrators and developers deal with a single set of directory service interfaces—regardless of the installed directory service(s).
• Smooth integration with Active Server Pages and VBScript makes it easy to write Internet applications that access directory services.
• ADSI itself is based on a provider model, so if there is a new provider giving access to another directory, the ADO application will be able to access it seamlessly. The ADSI provider is free-threaded and Unicode-enabled.