Searching Active Directory?
Aug 16, 2011Using VB.net im after a way of serching through active directory and returning the ou a computer is currently in.
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Searching Active Directory To Find All Users?
Jul 14, 2010Our organization has users that have similar first and last names, but different users ID. How do I search the Active Directory to find all the users?
View 1 RepliesVS 2008 - Searching For Active Program's Directory
Nov 30, 2009I'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.
View 1 RepliesSearching Active Directory Ofr Existing Computername Using VB2010?
May 11, 2012I am trying to search AD for a computer name typed in a textbox and return any matches or at least return true or false if it exists I am confused wether to use directory services or ADODB connection or ADSI
View 11 RepliesObject Reference Not Set To An Instance Of An Object When Searching For User In Active Directory?
May 8, 2012I tryed searching for an user in active directory using the code below but it gives me the error in the title of this post above:
AD = New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://OU=SchoolOUhere,OU=Staff,DC=garrard,DC=ketsds,DC=net", "", "", AuthenticationTypes.Secure)
AD2 = New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://OU=_Groups,OU=Staff,DC=garrard,DC=ketsds,DC=net", "", "", AuthenticationTypes.Secure)
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Get Query Active Directory With The Pc Name And Return It's Path In The Active Directory Tree
May 9, 2006I'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.
View 3 RepliesSet Password For Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (ad Lds) On .net 2.0?
Apr 18, 2011I 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
View 3 RepliesValidating A Username Against Active Directory Without Using Directory Services?
May 15, 2012Is 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.
Directory Searching At The Same Time?
Jul 14, 2010i use the code below to collect all the files in a search. work great but i all so need to collect all the directorys at the same time..
Public Function GetFilesRecursive(ByVal initial As String) As List(Of String)
' This list stores the results.
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Searching For Files In A Directory?
Jan 19, 2010I'm creating an app that has check boxes that will define a search. The files all reside in one folder. I've looked at some tutorials that use io.directory.getfiles and I can get this to work. But what I think i want to use is: io.path.getfilename because I don't need the path (though I'm about ready to make an exception).
When should I use io.path.getfilename and can I use that method to do a search? I can't figure that out. I would think it would react as io.directory does but I am incorrect.....
Here is the code. Its short becasue I'm just figuring things out first:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim afiles() As String
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The commented out line is what I can't get to work and I'm thinking that is what I need to work.
Active Directory In .Net?
Jul 1, 2009How can I get a list of computers and their properties from Active Directory using VB.Net and Visual Studio 2008?
View 3 RepliesSearching Directory For Illegal Characters?
Mar 25, 2010I'm looking for a solution that will search a given directory and if it finds any illegal Windows file names it alerts the user:
/ : * ? " < > |
But I have no idea where to even start.
Access Active Directory Via .Net?
Mar 25, 2011I 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?
View 6 RepliesActive Directory - ID For Each User?
Feb 15, 2007I 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 ?
Active Directory Display Name?
Jun 17, 2008I'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, _
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Asp.net Active Directory Logging In?
May 24, 2009i 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
View 1 RepliesBinding With Active Directory?
Jan 11, 2011Im 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.
Get All Users In The Active Directory?
Mar 16, 2011i 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
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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..
How To Add Object To Active Directory
Aug 19, 2011I am having some issues with the following script for adding an object to AD - The object being a user and then modifying the properties on it.
Error
Line 350:
Line 351: Dim adUsers As DirectoryEntries = dirEntry.Children
Line 352: Dim newUser As DirectoryEntry = adUsers.Add("CN=" & sUserName, "user")
Line 353:
Line 354: newUser.Properties("givenname").Add(sFirstName)
Description:
An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Unknown error (0x80005000)
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Partial class Add
Me.CreateAdAccount(uname.Text, pword.Text, fname.Text, sname.Text, Nothing)
Public Sub CreateAdAccount(ByVal sUserName As String, _
ByVal sPassword As String, _
ByVal sFirstName As String, ByVal sLastName As String, _
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How To Set Password For Active Directory
Mar 10, 2011I 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?
Dim objADAM As DirectoryEntry = BindToInstance()
Dim objUser As DirectoryEntry = objADAM.Children.Add("CN=Jimmy", "User")
objUser.Properties("sn").Value = "lloyd"
objUser.Properties("givenName").Value = "Jimmy Smith"
objUser.Properties("userpassword").Value = "THEPASSWORD"
objUser.CommitChanges()
This is the error that I get :
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException (0x80072020): An operations error occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80072020) at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.CommitChanges
IP Address Of A Active Directory CN?
Jan 12, 2012I have a list of computers from the AD which also have IP addresses in one of the fields. The IP address does not seem to be accurate. It looks like the AD updates are not as frequent as the DHCP server.
MYCOMPUTER1 1.1.1.1
MYCOMPUTER2 2.2.2.2
MYCOMPUTER3 3.3.3.3
Is there anyway to get the IP address from VB soon after I retrieve the record from AD? Querying the DNS/DHCP server via code?
Joining Active Directory With App
Jan 9, 2009I am trying to Join the domain using VB.NET 2005. I cannot see anything I am missing but am getting an error code that hasn't proven much use. I get a return error code of 1332.[code]
View 1 RepliesUse Active Directory Server With .Net
Nov 6, 2009We are developing our application using MS Visual Studio 2008 VB .Net. We have to use Active Directory Server for authenticating the user logging into the application. Does any one has code samples intergrating .Net and ADS?
View 3 RepliesWay To Login To Active Directory?
Oct 21, 2011We are cunrretly developing a solution for compact framework and windows mobile 6.5. The idea is that the user have to login using custom login for on the phone before they can do anything else. Our backend is WCF, and here we have planned to implement an interface based solution where the customer can select between a variety of "AuthenticationSources" one including Active Directory.Is there any clever way to do this using built in .NET functionality, or do I still have to do it the old fashion way like:
1) Write domain, user and password in the windows mobile login form.
2) send this info using http webservice to the wcf server, where the server check for this device, which is the preferred login source. If it is ad, it will load the ADauthenticator class, peform a LDAP query against the ad selected, and simply return true or false if user passed or not, then the webservice return tru/false to the device.
3) If the return answer is true, the device will store an encrypted registry key on the device indicating to the device client that the user is logged on.
4) If the user select logout, or if the device is restarted, or loses power, the registry key is cleared on boot.is this a good enough solution? The devices are NOT considered to be members of the actual domain. And this solution should handle a solution with a database source for logins.
.net 2.0 - Remove User From Active Directory
Aug 6, 2010I am trying to create a VB.NET application which will (hopefully) reduce some time spent on some of my departments helpdesk calls. The part that I am stuck with is how to use VB.NET to remove a user from a group. The following is code that I have been playing with:
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I am coding in .NET 2.0 as I am unsure if the server it will live on will have 3.5 installed.
Active Directory - Cannot Connect To AD Using LDAP?
Mar 20, 2012I'm writing code to connect to my Active Directory server using LDAP. I can connect usingLDAP://celtestdomdc1.celtestdom.localbut I can't connect usingLDAP://celtestdomdc1.celtestdom.local/CN=Users;DC=celtestd
View 1 RepliesActive Directory - How To Set AccountExpires In AD DirectoryEntry
Oct 6, 2011I needed to set the accountExpires property in the AD DirectoryEntry couldn't find a simple answer.Found some information;
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Active Directory Attribute Retrieval?
Jun 21, 2010is there anyway to retrieve and list all the attributes for an active directory user to be used for updating with using the following
de.properties.contains(propertyName)
Active Directory Clean Up Tool?
May 26, 2010I'm currently making my first program, its an active directory clean up tool. Right now I'm having diffculty getting it to search sub OUs that it sees, I can get it to look at one layer of the sub OUs. I just want more of a dynamic code so I don't have to keep repeating it like I did do. Also I'm not sure that I'm looking through active directory the best way.
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Active Directory Computer Description
May 6, 2010How do I find the description for a computer in ActiveDirectory?
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