Adding users to Active Directory with .NET

Posted By: Robert Shelton, Jr. | Oct 27th, 2005 @ 4:08 PM | 52,232 Views | 2 Comments

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Federal Developer Evangelist, Robert Shelton, takes you through a 10 minute walkthrough/demonstation of how to add a user and set the users Active Directory properties with .NET (C# in this case).

My Other AD Screencasts:

Adding Groups and users to groups with .NET: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=132400

Searching AD with .NET:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=132740

Resource links (shown at the end of the screencast):

My blog: www.sheltonblog.com (where you can download the code).

Complete list of AD Attributes: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adschema/adschema/attributes.asp

List of values for the "userAccountControl" attribute: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adschema/adschema/a_useraccountcontrol.asp

Tags: CSharp, Networking, Security, Visual Studio

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djm

Hi is it possible to use the Username and Password arguments with the DirectoryEntry object in VB 2005 it only allows me to pass the Path.

Thanks

David

aravindmc

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