Active Directory or ADSI

Deborah Pate (TeamB)

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Mar 22, 2001, 5:26:24 AM3/22/01

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<<AEgir Sveinsson:
Does anyone know of a good recource on how to program ADSI
with Delphi?
>>

http://www.agnisoft.com/adsi/Conf2000/3132.htm

There was also an article in Delphi Informant by Simon
Murrell, but my link seems to be broken - you can get it
from Google, though:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.delphiinformant.co
m/features/2000/05/di200005sm_f/di200005sm_f.asp+simon+murr
ell+adsi&hl=en

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Marc Scheuner

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Mar 22, 2001, 8:59:40 AM3/22/01

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:26:24 GMT, "Deborah Pate (TeamB)"
<d.p...@cableinet.co.not-this-bit.uk> wrote:
>There was also an article in Delphi Informant by Simon
>Murrell, but my link seems to be broken - you can get it
>from Google, though:

No, it's not broken - Delphi Informant has locked down access to its
articles on the web site to their magazine subscribers...... a pity in
some ways, but from a business point of view quite understandable.

Marc

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AEgir Sveinsson

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Mar 22, 2001, 5:03:42 AM3/22/01

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Ivan

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Mar 22, 2001, 5:11:27 PM3/22/01

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The Delphi examples I've come across so far have been very poor and
inefficient. I would recommend using ADO to access the AD unless you're a
COM guru.

Ivan

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Marc Scheuner

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Mar 23, 2001, 8:21:42 AM3/23/01

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:11:27 -0000, "Ivan"
<ivanjones(DeleteThisAntiSpamBracketBeforeSending)@hotmail.com> wrote:
>The Delphi examples I've come across so far have been very poor and
>inefficient. I would recommend using ADO to access the AD unless you're a
>COM guru.

We're using ADSI from Delphi all the time, and it works like a charm -
using ADO slows down things considerably.

Yes, you need to understand how to USE COM, but that's something every
serious Delphi / WIndows developer must understand these days ;-)

Ing. Wolfgang Bures

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Mar 25, 2001, 7:55:33 AM3/25/01

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Is there a way to find the AD container a user is in when you have the user
name?

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Marc Scheuner

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Mar 26, 2001, 7:59:13 AM3/26/01

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On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:55:33 +0200, "Ing. Wolfgang Bures"
<Wolf...@bures.at> wrote:
>Is there a way to find the AD container a user is in when you have the user
>name?

Sure - if you have the *FULL* user's LDAP name, that is.

<LDAP://MyServer.MyCompany.Com/CN=John Doe,OU=R&D,DC=MyCompany,DC=Com>

In that case, he's in the OU called:

OU=R&D or in full LDAP:
<LDAP://MyServer.MyCompany.Com/OU=R&D,DC=MyCompany,DC=Com>

If you have only its first/last name (John Doe), then you'd have to do
a search on the whole directory - using IDirectorySearch or something
like that.