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Search the Microsoft website - The Microsoft website has many good sources of information to answer questions on ADSI, VBScript, Active Directory, and other Microsoft technologies. The main site is www.microsoft.com. In the support area, the Microsoft Knowledge Base has articles addressing problems encountered in the past. Many of these articles have authoritative information found almost nowhere else. The TechNet site has many technical articles. Especially useful is the MSDN site for developers. You can search on attribute names, for example, to find useful information. The biggest problem with these searches is that you may get many hits not related to Active Directory. The Active Directory home page is at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/directory/ad/default.asp Search the Microsoft Newsgroups - The MSDN newsgroups, at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/, are excellent sources of information. The chances are good that your question has been asked before. Among the newsgroups to check out are microsoft.public.scripting.wsh, microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript, and microsoft.public.adsi. Besides browsing these for recent postings, you can use the built in search functions. Even better, is to use the Google Advanced Group Search, at http://groups.google.com/advanced_search. You can search for key words, like "nested group", "ADO", "LogonHours", or "OpenDSObject". Search in the newsgroups "microsoft.public.scripting.*" or "microsoft.public.adsi.*". The "*" is a wildcard, to include all sub newsgroups. For some questions you can search "microsoft.public.*", which includes all newsgroups. It may take awhile to figure out the best words to search on, but you can find information here not availably elsewhere. Post a question in a Microsoft Newsgroup - Keep your question brief and to the point. Try to include a code snippet that demonstrates your problem, without lots of unrelated detail. It would be best to alter personal or site specific information in the code. Try to have one question per posting, but no question is too simple. If your are getting an error message, indicate which line raises the error. Most error messages include the line number, but others cannot tell which line that corresponds to unless you indicate. Check out Links and References - Check out some of the sites on the Links page of this site. Also, the books listed on the References page are excellent learning resources. |
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