I'm trying to enumerate through the Active Directory schema and don't think I'm seeing all the attributes. Could someone take a look and tell me where I'm going wrong? objRoot = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + serverName + ":" + port + "/RootDSE"); strSchemaNamingContext = objRoot.Properties[ "schemaNamingContext"].Value.ToString(); ob...
Anybody knows how to check whether a user has give permission to Replicate Directory Changes in Active Directory using C# ? ...
I've got a string that I'm fetching from LDAP for Active Directory group membership and I need to parse it to check if the user is a member of the AD group. Is there a class that can parse this for me? Example: CN=Foo Group Name,DC=mydomain,DC=com ...
Hello all, I'm trying to build a Grails application which can do LDAP lookups. I've been following a few guides (link text and some others) but to no end I'm afraid. Relevant source code: From config.groovy: ldap { directories { dir1 { url = "ldap://dc01" base = "ou=someou,dc=check,dc=nl" userDn = "cn=A...
I am using this simple method of finding a user in the current domain, that works for all users that 'exist' but I can't find any way to determine if the user does not exist. string userLDAP = @"MYDOMAIN/username"; string path = "WinNT://" + userLDAP ; DirectoryEntry root = new DirectoryEntry(path, null, null, AuthenticationTypes.Secure...
I now have 2 users whose names are not correctly displayed in the 'welcome' menu at the top right of the page. The first user married and her surname changed. The new name was entered in ActiveDirectory but her maiden name is still displayed. In the second case, a LAN id was reallocated to a new department member. The name of the prev...
I have a function that searches AD for members of various groups. If I remove the loop, I don't get the error "A column named 'cn' already belongs to this datatable", however, I need to iterate through each OU. Function getCOMDLNames(ByVal searchStr As String) As DataTable Dim MySearchRoot As DirectoryEntry = New DirectoryEntry("pat...
I have a script that creates two groups, a hand full of folders, and sets permissions on those folders. In my testing environment all of these processes work without issue but in my production environment I run into a problem. Setting the permissions on the folders fail since the groups I created have not replicated through all 8 of my d...
We have a SharePoint site that authenticate using active directory in which user authentication is checked in active directory ... Is there any way to know from active directory how much each user log in or make authentication ? ...
I have this powershell code. $securityidentifier = new-object security.principal.securityidentifier $sid $user = ( $securityidentifier.translate( [security.principal.ntaccount] ) ) This code works only on a computer which is in the same domain as the user whose SID I would like to translate to ntaccount. Is it possible to translate ...
IS there any way to get the AD searcher to return more than 1k rows, or to get it to return the results in 1k pages? I need to do a test on all 45k users in our domain. Code looks like this: DirectorySearcher search = new DirectorySearcher( entry ); search.Filter = "(&(objectClass=user))"; search.SizeLimit = 100...
I am trying to update my filter currently appled to the People Picker in SharePoint (WSS). I am using stsadm to set the filter. Something like... stsadm -o setproperty -url http://webserver:39770 -pn peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter -pv "(&(userAccountControl=512)(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(memberOf=cn=All Users Group,...
I have this app that loops thru my AD and I would like it to notify me on changes. IE if someone changed their email, a user was added and so on. I was thinking of checksum DirectoryEntry object that gets the root AD object with all its children but i cant wrap my head around it. DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://"...
Hello I've been asked to create a solution which detects the dead accounts and cleans it up from a SharePoint site. I found a code snippet here (in the comments) which checks each user against the AD and cleans up the account. But the LDAP details are hardcoded in the code. What happens if i want to detect it dynamically and check the ...
Hey, I am trying to delete a user from an Active Directory group via code. Getting the helpful error of: Exception has been thrown by the targe of an invocation" Trace: Stack Trace: at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] args) at Active_Directory.RemoveUserFromGroup(String sInUs...
Im doing some queries to a active directory, building up my own Dictionary to contain name, phone and email per user. then i store user to a file, something like this: domain\groupt\group\user;<checksum> where path before ; is the unique id for the user (a user can be in different groups so i have to track that) and <checksum> is .GetH...
Hi, I have an ASP.NET 3.5 Site where, in some places, I am checking if the currently logged on Active Directory user is in a certain AD Security Group. In the Page_Load I'm doing something like this: if (isInADGroup(UserGUID)) { //proceed } Now I was wondering, couldn't I just create a Custom Attribute, like some of MVC's securit...
This code enumerate Active Directory domains, if the mahine on which is running is part of the forest. public static ArrayList EnumerateDomains() { ArrayList alDomains = new ArrayList(); Forest currentForest = Forest.GetCurrentForest(); DomainCollection myDomains = currentForest.Domains; foreach (Domain objDomain in my...
I'd like to provide some background before I pose my question so please, bear with me. I have come across Microsoft's Security Compliance Manager. It's rather new to me and as I understand so far, one can download EC (enterprise) or SSLF (specialized security, limited function) security "baseline" GPOs for implementation in Active Dire...
Scenario: We sell J2EE(JBoss+SpringSecurity) software to large corporation which mostly use ActiveDirectory Our J2EE(JBoss) software can be hooked up to ActiveDirectory, however it requires Roles addition into ActiveDirectory i.e. cn=esp_administrator,cn=Roles,o=company,o=com As per my understanding, JBoss will need an account to "bind...