How Do I...? Common Tasks QuickStart Tutorial
How Do I...Access Active Directory?
The Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI) accesses the capabilities of directory services from different network providers in a distributed computing environment to present a single
set of directory service interfaces for managing network resources.
Administrators and developers can use ADSI services to enumerate and manage the
resources in a directory service, regardless of which network environment contains
the resource. Use Active Directory to perform common administrative tasks, such
as locating resources throughout the distributed computing environment.
This sample illustrates how to locate resources in the Active Directory. It is
a small console application that can be run from a command prompt. The
application takes one command line argument. The first argument has to be a
valid path to an Active Directory entry.
Try running the following command, substituting the path for a valid Active Directory
path for your particular network:
> ADRead.exe "LDAP://CN=Clarify Operations Team,OU=Distribution Lists,DC=fabricom,DC=com"
In its simplest form, reading from the Active Directory involves:
- Creating a new DirectoryEntry:
Dim objDirEnt As DirectoryEntry = New DirectoryEntry(path)
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- Reading the information from the Active Directory and printing it to the screen:
Dim tab As String = " "
Dim key As String
Dim objCollection As Object
For Each Key In objDirEnt.Properties.PropertyNames
Console.WriteLine(tab & key & " = ")
For Each objCollection In objDirEnt.Properties(key)
Console.WriteLine(tab & tab & CStr(objCollection))
Next
Next
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Example
VB ADRead.exe
[This sample can be found at H:\Home\WU_000036_efe47225c86ca62f325a01d8519bc002\Webs\aspnet.sk\quickstarts\QuickStartv20\howto\samples\Services\DirectoryServices\ADRead\
To build this sample, open the SDK command prompt and navigate to the above path. Build the sample using the build tool msbuild
passing the solution file as the first parameter: msbuild mySample.sln. The compiled executable will be found in the sub directory \bin
directory.]
Microsoft .NET Framework SDK QuickStart Tutorials Version 2.0
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