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>ADSI is not Active Directory per se; it can be used in the absense of Active Directory, although some of the services it can implement regarding access control really rely on Active Directory. It works witrh NT domains, it works with Netware Bindery-level environments and with NDS, interoperting pretty transparently, virtualizing their different implementations so that you can deal with these different environemnts using a consistent model.
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>Let me wave another enticing tidbit under your nose - ADSI can make network information available and manipulable via ADO, making the network information accessible and queriable, and allowing it to be passed across COM boundaries...

Well, if it works with NT AND Netware, it's definitely worth my looking into! Any good introductory resources, less dense than the ADSI ASP Programmer's Reference?

TIA