Adding Groups (and users to groups) to Active Directory with .NET

Posted By: Robert Shelton, Jr. | Nov 1st, 2005 @ 7:28 PM | 50,301 Views | 13 Comments

Federal Developer Evangelist, Robert Shelton, takes you through a 8 minute walkthrough/demonstration of how to create a group in active directory with .NET and to add users to that group.  This demonstration is using the DirectoryServices namespace of the .NET framework.





You can find the code at my blog: http://sheltonblog.com 


My other Programming AD Screen Casts:
- Searching AD with .NET:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=132740
- Adding users to Active Directory with .NET
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?PostID=130700
List of Group attributes for Active Directory:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adschema/adschema/c_group.asp
List of values for the groupType Attribuet:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adschema/adschema/a_grouptype.asp

~Robert
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#Dec 13th, 2007 @ 12:52 PM
Madness
Madness
I wish I had found this page 3 days ago.  The code sample that I was working off of was this: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180904(vs.80).aspx

That says:

The following Visual Basic .NET example demonstrates how to add a single member to a group.

Visual Basic
' Bind to the group.
Dim group As New DirectoryEntry(groupDN)

' Add the user to the group.
group.Properties("member").Add(userDN)

' Commit the changes to the group.
group.CommitChanges()

Can anyone tell me what this sample is supposed to do? Is it incorrect? I tried to post Community Content that it didn't work and I successfully used group.invoke("Add",userDN) instead. But my browser just goes into some kind of loop.

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#Sep 14th @ 12:30 AM
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Federal Developer Evangelist, Robert Shelton, takes you through a 8 minute walkthrough/demonstration of how to create a group in active directory with .NET and to add users to that group.  This demonstration is using the DirectoryServices namespace of the .NET framework..thanks for sharing your views..
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