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How to get list of Active Directory Groups using .Net Directory Services
This article is third in the series demonstrating the use of Active Directory
in ASP.Net. The first article Using
Active Directory In ASP.Net - Dump Schema Informations demonstrated how
to get the schema information. In this article we will use the basics discussed
earlier to enumerate the Active Direftory Groups.
This article demonstrates the use of following namespaces and classes.
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System.DirectoryServices
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System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry
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System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher
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System.DirectoryServices.SearchResultCollection
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System.DirectoryServices.SearchResult
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System.DirectoryServices.ResultPropertyCollection
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System.DirectoryServices.PropertyValueCollection
How To Do It
The basics steps to implement the enumeration of Active Directory Users remain
the same as discussed in first
article. The only difference is the query that is used to search for
the Users.
We have added a new method, GetGroupsList in ADSIUtil
class. This method sets the appropriate search criteria filter to look for all
the Active Directory Groups. To get the list of Groups, the filter is set to
look for Group object class.
SearchResultCollection results;
DirectorySearcher srch = new DirectorySearcher(m_obDirEntry);
srch.Filter = "(objectClass=Group)";
results = srch.FindAll();
Platforms Tested
We have tested the included project on following platforms
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Windows 2000 Adv. Server
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Windows 2003 Enterprise Server
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