Active Directory Cookbook for windows server 2003- P10:If you are familiar with the O'Reilly Cookbook format that can be seen in other popular books, such as the Perl Cookbook, Java Cookbook, and DNS and BIND Cookbook, then the layout of this book will not be anything new to you. The book is composed of 18 chapters, each containing 10-30 recipes for performing a specific Active Directory task. Within each recipe are four sections: problem, solution, discussion, and see also. | Chapter 4. Searching and Manipulating Objects Introduction Recipe . Viewing the RootDSE Recipe . Viewing the Attributes of an Object Recipe . Using LDAP Controls Recipe . Using a Fast or Concurrent Bind Recipe . Searching for Objects in a Domain Recipe . Searching the Global Catalog Recipe . Searching for a Large Number of Objects Recipe . Searching with an Attribute-Scoped Query Recipe . Searching with a Bitwise Filter Recipe . Creating an Object Recipe . Modifying an Object Recipe . Modifying a Bit-Flag Attribute Recipe . Dynamically Linking an Auxiliary Class Recipe . Creating a Dynamic Object Recipe . Refreshing a Dynamic Object Recipe . Modifying the Default TTL Settings for Dynamic Objects Recipe . Moving an Object to a Different OU or Container Recipe . Moving an Object to a Different Domain Recipe . Renaming an Object 101 Recipe . Deleting an Object Recipe . Deleting a Container That Has Child Objects Recipe . Viewing the Created and Last Modified Timestamp of an Object Recipe . Modifying the Default LDAP Query Policy Recipe . Exporting Objects to an LDIF File Recipe . Importing Objects Using an LDIF File Recipe . Exporting Objects to a CSV File Recipe . Importing Objects Using a CSV File Introduction Active Directory is based on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP and supports the LDAP v3 specification defined in RFC 2251. And while many of the AD tools and interfaces such as ADSI abstract and streamline LDAP operations to make things easier any good AD administrator or developer must have a thorough understanding of LDAP to fully utilize Active Directory. This chapter will cover the some of the basic LDAP-related tasks you may need to do with Active Directory along with other items related to searching and manipulating objects in the directory. The Anatomy of an Object The Active Directory schema is composed of a hierarchy of classes. These .
