I'll post some code later on, but I wanted to make some quick points about integrating ADAM and AzMan.  I'm in the midst of building an authentication/authorization system using the two technologies together, and have some across some stumbling blocks.  There's not much documentation, particularly around AzMan, and the COM interfaces for AzMan can be a bit cumbersome.

• Storing users in ADAM and authorizing them using ADAM requires Windows 2003 Server or Vista.  There's no decent way to make this work on Windows XP.  The necessary AzMan interface, IAzClientContext2, doesn't exist on XP.  It's required for using a collection of user and group SIDs from ADAM to do access checks against AzMan.  I'll post some code later...
• IAzClientContext2 is also available on Vista, so Vista is also a viable dev platform.
• There are some confusing interactions between the AzMan UI and the programmatic API.  If you create a Role in the AzMan UI, but don't create a RoleAssignment, the programmatic call to IAzApplication2.OpenRole will fail.  If you create the role assignment, but don't actually assign any users or groups to it, OpenRole succeeds.  Conversely, if you call the programmatic IAzApplication2.CreateRole method and assign operations and users to the role in code, the RoleAssignment shows up in the UI, but not the Role itself. 
• If you assign an ADAM user to be a member of an AzMan group, it won't show up in the AzMan UI, but if you assign them directly to a Role, the ADAM user's SID will show up (as "unknown SID") under the RoleAssignment.  Either way, the call to AccessCheck works correctly.
• You must pass the complete list of group SIDs from ADAM, but fetching the user's "tokenGroups" property.  Don't use "memberOf" because it doesn't take into account groups which belong to other groups.

More detail to come...