Active Directory Cookbook 3rd Edition Available for Pre-Order

Amazon.com: Active Directory Cookbook

The tech reviewers completed the reviews of the updated ILM chapter and I've put the finishing touches on it myself and submitted it to the publisher. I see now that you can pre-order the book through Amazon and even O'Reilly's site is listing it as an estimated publication date of December 2008.
In the updated chapter on ILM 2007 is a primer on how the synchronization engine works followed by the list of recipes. Among the list of recipes are the following new recipes available only in the 3rd edition:

• Extending object types to include a new attribute
• Previewing changes to the ILM configuration
• Committing changes to individual identities using the Commit Preview feature
• Passing data between rules extensions using transaction properties
• Using a single rules extension to affect multiple attribute flows
• Flowing a null value to a data source
• Contributing a UTCCodedTime attribute in Active Directory
• Importing and decoding the accountExpires attribute
• Exporting and encoding the accountExpires attribute

It's too bad the ILM 2 beta wasn't farther along (beta 2 was out when I completed my first draft) or else we might have squeezed in a chapter on some of the new features available in the ILM Service Database (aka the Portal app).