The explosion of the Internet has redefined networking. What was a strong proprietary networking world has conformed to a rapid race to optimize future networks and provide compatibility to today"s and yesterday"s legacy systems. The release rate of new technology has tripled in development. The new technologies provide many solutions and options for customers and clients alike. Client expectations and functionality has exponentially increased. All these benefits of growth leaves the customer and Solution Provider trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Two technologies from Microsoft collectively ease the client and solutions providers decision: Microsoft Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI) and Microsoft Collaborative Data Objects (CDO). The combination of ADSI and CDO provides the glue that allows easy pasting of any companies" puzzled networks for yesterday, today and tomorrow.