Administration and Management 

This section describes how to manage objects in the Active Directory, and how to use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to obtain enterprise data and automate administrative tasks.

In This Section

• Directory Services in the .NET Framework
  Describes the namespaces used to provide directory services and how to use the classes they contain.

• Windows Management Instrumentation(WMI) in .NET Framework
  Describes how to use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) data in application development.

Related Sections

• Advanced Development Technologies
  Provides links to information about sophisticated application development tasks and techniques in the .NET Framework.