LDAP Active Directory path

Question

I am trying to add a user to Active Directory through an MPS Web Service. I've been trying a long time to find the correct LDAP-url to use to tell it to add the new user to the Users group. I've tried things like:

LDAP://XXXX.YYY/OU=Users,DC=XXXX,DC=YYY
LDAP://XXXX.YYY/CN=Users,DC=XXXX,DC=YYY
LDAP://XXXX.YYY/DN=Users,DC=XXXX,DC=YYY

It seems the "farthest" I've gotten is an error that says I have given it an invalid Customer.

I really don't have a lot of experience with LDAP (pretty much none at all), so even just a good LDAP and Active Directory tutorial would be extremely useful (even that is eluding me right now). Thanks!

I've since lookup up the actual distinguished name in ADSI Edit, which was LDAP://XXXX.YYY/CN=Users,DC=XXXX,DC=YYY, but still have no luck.

Answer 1

You can start with:

• LDAP Query Basics
• Creating a list of Users and their e-mail addresses in Exchange 2000
• How Can I Get a List of All the Users Whose Passwords Never Expire?

Answer 2

More directly, the default Users container (not a group) in a default Active Directory install would be CN=Users,dc=domain,dc=com

You are not clear if you are having trouble adding a user to a group, or if you are having trouble creating a user in a specific location.