VS 2008 Active Directory Searcher To Access Database?
Mar 12, 2010
I am very experianced in setting up AD and networks and have recently decided to teach myself programing. I am getting there learning new things every day.One project I am near to compleating is to scan Active directory and then deposite the results in an access database.
I am useing system.directory.services I can use LDAP to search fo the information I need and I can even get the info to populate a list box I just can't seem to get at the data and then submit it to an access database. I have worked with databases and can use them for more simple tasks (using a form to add records to a database)
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May 9, 2012
I wanted to create some CLR functions that will access Active Directory, but I discovered I can't add a reference to "System.DirectoryServices" to my CLR project.
I googled it, and found that I have to add the AD dll as an Assembly to the SQL Server. Like so:
CREATE ASSEMBLY [System.DirectoryServices]
FROM 'C:WindowsMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727System.DirectoryServices.dll'
WITH PERMISSION_SET = UNSAFE
GO
The problem here is that I have to set the "PERMISSION_SET = UNSAFE" to the dll... this means that I have to set the database as "TRUSTWORTHY ON", and this opens a can a worms!
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Feb 9, 2011
I've developed a Windows Form application that contains a function where a user will query AD using a users last name in an attempt to get a list of all domain users that contain all or part of the last name. This function works well if the user is an administrator, however in some cases a department manager, who only exist in the Domain User AD group, needs to use this function. When the user with only Domain User rights uses the function all queries come back empty. I can take the same application to another domain and user with just Domain User rights can use the function just fine.
I assume that the first domain that I mentioned might be using Group Policy to prevent Domain Users from making a query against AD.
Is it truly a Group Policy or some other setting within the domain that prevents this?
The current administrator of the first domain I spoke of is fairly new and has no idea of the workings of AD or Group Policy. All domains that I mentioned here I believe are running Windows 2003 Domains.
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Aug 20, 2011
i need to make a very simple directory searcher with instructions with the design?
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Jun 4, 2010
I am building a company intranet site and one of the requirements is having a list of all of the direct reports. That list is being populated to a gridview which will include phone number, location, etc. Eventually I will create an edit button that will allow managers access to updating some of the employees information. I am having problems setting a filter that will find the manager. Here is what I have so far...
Protected Sub DirectReports_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles DirectReports.Click
Dim userNameString As String
[Code].......
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Feb 15, 2011
I have a directory searcher that is looking for dynamic groups.When I try to process the results it is taking 30 seconds to return the results.the ds.findall is very fast but when I try to find out the number of records returned or anything about the results it take the 30 seconds. So i am assuming that this is where the actual retreival of information is taking place.[code]
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May 9, 2006
I'm a developer for a College we have an active directory.I need to query Active Directory with the Pc name and return it's path in the Active Directory tree.
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Mar 25, 2011
I having a program built in VB.Net and would like to take in the users windows name and then compatre that with a security group in AD, if they are in a certain group then redirect them to the next page otherwise block them.I have tried many ways using many different snippets of code from different forums, but cannot find a code piece of code that works?
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Apr 20, 2011
I have a webForm app that registers a user in the database based on the information provided with a web service, auto-generates a random password and username, and e-mails the user a link to take an application based on the marketing company selected. How do I get only the currently logged in user's groups to show up under the MarketingCo_DropDownList. Each user allowed access to the system will have membership in at least one of the marketing groups as defined by the web.config. For example, a user that is currently logged in and belongs to the BIG group under location "algACOMP_user_BIG", will only be able to see BIG in the Marketing Company drop down list. A user that is currently logged in and belongs to the NIS group located under "algACOMP_user_NIS" will only be able to see NIS in the Marketing Company drop down list.
Here's my best guess (located under Private Sub GetMarketingCompanies() method in default.aspx.vb):
If InStr(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Groups = "AMG", item.MarketingCompanyShort = "AMG", CompareMethod.Text) Then
marketingCo.Items.Add(String.Format("{0} | {1}", item.MarketingCompanyShort, item.MarketingCompanyName))
For Each item In ac1
[Code] .....
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Oct 3, 2010
My current project is to search the computer for exe files, I managed to do that easily with a for...each statement. It ran well, but it came to a adminstrator folder, then it said "Access Denied".I understand that you cant access these folders, but i was wondering how to exclude certain directories that the user can't access, like UAC or something.[code]
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Nov 30, 2009
I'm writing a small app that finds the directory of an active program and displays it in a message box. e.g. Microsoft Word is open and running... click a button and the app finds the Microsoft Word's directory. It has to be able to differentiate between the active program and inactive copy of the program.
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May 29, 2010
Alright so heres the issue when this code runs nothing happens! This is all I could find on the internet on how to disable an account and then remove it from the GAL.
Dim Val As Integer = CInt(AdObject.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties("userAccountControl").Value)
AdObject.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties("userAccountControl").Value = Val Or &H2
AdObject.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties("msExchHideFromAddressLists").Value = "TRUE"
'AdObject.GetDirectoryEntry.MoveTo(MoveTo)
AdObject.GetDirectoryEntry.CommitChanges()
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Aug 13, 2009
I have done VBscripting the past and I have actually made this work in a script however I am trying to convert it to VB for the client so that it has a nicer interface and basically is a better program. There are several parts to this program but I am stuck on this part right now. I am attempting to get a list of all servers from Active Directory and then sort them by type. The program will run however it will not produce any results. Its just an empty file. I figured the problem was with my filtering but I just don't understand why this will not work. I have written it in two different ways and get the same result each time.
Imports System.DirectoryServices
Imports System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory
Imports ActiveDs
[Code]......
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Jul 16, 2010
With this code I can see what happening I'm just showing you what've I've done so far. Basically I want to use an If statement to see if an active directory object contains one of the keywords found in an INI file. I was wondering is this possible with just an IF statement or do I have to use a loop or a for each and how would I do that using one of those two. [code]
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Feb 28, 2012
I am new bie in Scripting world.I wrote a script in vb 2008 to query active directory information.Even though the script task executes successfully when i tried toretrieve records from the object variable using for loop container in ssis it gives an error the object variable doesnt have valid data n it.i suspect that i am facing errors in assigning the result set to the package variable declared as object.Please could someonehelp by having a look whether the data will be assigned correctly according to my script.i am trrying to pass the information queried from ad to package variable gvresults described as object.
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Dec 29, 2009
I am new to VB; am developing my first VB program; and require some help in getting started. I wish to query information from an Active Directory server using a Visual Basic 2008 console application. I have .NET Framwork 3.5 installed and VB 2008 Express installed. Do I need to install anything else (any additional libraries or components)? Is VB 2008 Express capable of accessing information from Active Directory? Where can I find information about the classes and methods I should use query information from Active Directory?
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Aug 19, 2009
First let me statethat my VB skills are appalling. Havent touched it since VB3 Ok here is the scenario. we want to be able to give our first line support the ability to modify AD groups BUT WITHOUT giving the acess or powers in the AD console. I have written command line scripts to do this and it works fine. Un fortunately we have people that think that if it dont have a OK NEXT CANCEL button it aint Windows :(
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Aug 18, 2011
I have a piece of business-soft to make the lives of our employees easier. It's fairly typical, a tabbed-MDI style main form with a load of buttons that activate each of its sub-modules.
I have security set up on it so that someone in sales can't enter the module for purchasing, etc... I authenticate the user by having them type in their network password and check it against the AD server with this function:
'Remember to Imports System.DirectoryServices for this to work
Private Function ValidateActiveDirectoryLogin(ByVal Domain As String, ByVal Username As String, ByVal Password As String) As Boolean
[Code].....
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Aug 31, 2010
I need to read the distinguished name of the current user (the one running the program) from Active Directory.I'm warm (I know I should use System. DirectoryServices and DirectorySearcher), but somehow I can't get the code to work properly, nor can I find a working example.Now, after having spent hours searching for examples on the internet, I'm getting quite frustrated with myself, so I turn to you hoping someone can provide an example.Why I need this: when people run this program, it needs to detect which OU they belong to. We have several sites (for example Rotterdam and Amsterdam) and depending on what site the user's OU is, I need to perform some actions. So I hope to derive f.e. "OU=Rotterdam" from their DN.
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Apr 18, 2011
I am trying to create a new user and set their password in AD LDS using asp.net vb. I'm binding to an instance of a directory entry, which is working fine. And I can add a user without a problem. The problem is that I can't seem to set the password when I add the user.Is this the right way to set the password
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May 15, 2012
Is it possible (I'm sure it is) to validate a user's credentials against Active Directory without using Directory Services?I'm building a Browser-Based WPF application which requires users to login to and get validated via Active Directory. Since .Net 4.0 (or maybe 3.5) accessing Directory Services from an Application requires the application to be fully trusted. Since IE won't provide full trust to an application if it doesn't have the signing certificate in it's cert store, the application is refused startup permission.
If I don't use Directory Services, then I can leave the application as Partial Trust and validate my user's credentials without having to install a certificate on each user's machine.
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Apr 23, 2010
how to call this Active Directory dialogue in .net?
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Mar 22, 2011
I encounter some problems when doing coding of backup file by copy and paste the database(Microsoft Access File) to another directory. Example, textbox1 will show the path of file that I want to backup, textbox2 will show the path I want to copy to. I need 1 button for browsing the file and another button for make confirmation of the path that I want to copy to.
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Dec 30, 2010
i am trying to connect to a password-protected MS Access 2007 database. I don't have any problems connecting to the database when the database is stored on the C drive, the following command works for me:
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Jul 1, 2009
How can I get a list of computers and their properties from Active Directory using VB.Net and Visual Studio 2008?
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Feb 15, 2007
I would like to have all properties on a user from active directory. I find some property name as :
distinguishedName, SAMAccountName, sn, givenName, TelephoneNumber, mail
If you have a list of property? As each user has an ID in AD ?
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Jun 17, 2008
I'm having a weird problem with active directory and the display name attribute. I can create an AD account with no problems, the account shows up, I can log on as the account, everything appears to be working as intended. The problem is, our company requires that the display name be in the form of "Lastname, Firstname". Thats all fine and dandy when you create an AD account use the MMC snap-in, you type in the users name as "Lastname, Firstname" in the display name field and when the account is created, the display name shows as "Lastname, Firstname" as you would expect.
The problem I am having is this, whenever I create an AD account programmatically, I can't for the life of me get the display name to show up as "Lastname, Firstname". The displayname property is set as such, checking the AD account using the MMC snap-in shows the display name is set correctly, but when looking at the list of user accounts, the account is always displayed as the users username. The account name I am using is "Test User", see pic below.
if you try to rename the account, the field it tells you it is editing is called Full Name? I can't find a property in AD even called Full Name so I am completely confused, here is a picture of me trying to rename the programmatically created account, as you can see, the display name field is set correctly even though it doesn't display that way. And of course, after renaming the account as seen below, the display name shows up correctly as "Lastname, Firstname"Here is the code I use to create the account, just for reference.
Public Sub CreateActiveDirectoryAccount(ByVal sUserName As String, ByVal sFirstName As String, _
ByVal sLastName As String, ByVal sUserPrincipalName As String, ByVal sPassword As String, _
ByVal sHomeDrive As String, ByVal sHomeDirLocation As String, _
[code]....
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May 24, 2009
i would like to be able to login on a webpage using a valid active directory username and password.user name and password are entered in textboxes. if they are correct then i would like to redirect to another page.how can this be coded.in a second task after some code is performed, log in as an administrator using code and unlock the account.i have heard that this is called impersonation. how can i perform the above?i'm using visual web developer 2008 and vb.net
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Jan 11, 2011
Im trying to connect to AD and carry out some basic tasks for a .Net application written in VB .Net. I would like to create the application so when it loads, it automatically binds to the default AD domain that the user is logged onto. This has led me to writing the code
Dim domain As DirectoryEntry = New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://DC=domain,DC=com", Nothing, Nothing, AuthenticationTypes.Secure)
domain.RefreshCache()
But this doesnt work.
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Mar 16, 2011
i am trying to get a list of all users in the active directory on a domain. The following code is being used but doesnt seem to work:
Public Function GetAllUsers(ByVal ldapServerName As String) As Hashtable
'To retrieve list of all LDAP users
'This function returns HashTable
[Code]....
Then i get the "find people" box pop up. So i know i have the correct LDAP but not sure why the other information is preventing it from working..
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