Provides easy access to Active Directory Domain Services from managed code. The namespace contains two component classes, and , which use the Active Directory Services Interfaces (ADSI) technology. ADSI is the set of interfaces that Microsoft provides as a flexible tool for working with a variety of network providers. ADSI gives the administrator the ability to locate and manage resources on a network with relative ease, regardless of the size of the network.

class encapsulates a node or object in the Active Directory Domain Services hierarchy. Use this class for binding to objects, reading properties, and updating attributes. Together with helper classes, provides support for life-cycle management and navigation methods, including creating, deleting, renaming, moving a child node, and enumerating children. Use the class to perform queries against the Active Directory Domain Services hierarchy. LDAP is the only system-supplied Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) provider that supports searching. A search of the Active Directory Domain Services hierarchy through returns instances of , which are contained in an instance of the class. ]]>