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Change data in AD

Oct 01, 2015 03:17 AM|Kremius|LINK

Hi to all,

Is there possibility to create website with I will be able to change user information like email, address, phone number in ActiveDirectory ??

Thanks in advance for answer

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Re: Change data in AD

Oct 01, 2015 10:23 PM|Zhi Lv - MSFT|LINK
Hi Kremius,

From your description, it seems that you want to modify the object properties in an Active Directory Hierarchy. If that is the case, you can use the DirectoryEntry class to retrieve a node from an Active Directory hierarchy and modify its property content.

You could refer to the following steps:
1. Create an instance of the DirectoryEntry component, binding it to the known object in the active directory hierarchy with the object's path.
2. Make the necessary changes to the object's properties by referring to it by name.
3. Call the CommitChanges method save your modifications to the item in the directory.
For more details, please refer to this article: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dx0d151f%28v=vs.71%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Please Note: You must have administrator rights to a directory in order to modify any of its information.

Besides, since this issue is related to the Active Directory, if you have any further question about Active Directory, I suggest you could post you problem to Active Directory forum: http://forums.asp.net/93.aspx/1?Active+Directory+and+LDAP

Best regards,
Dillion
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Re: Change data in AD

Oct 02, 2015 09:47 AM|Kremius|LINK

Could you make a 'sample' because I don't really know how to do it (let's say that I'm new in ASP NET) ;)

Thanks in advance :)

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Re: Change data in AD

Oct 15, 2015 07:42 AM|Kremius|LINK

Hi again,

I have something like this:

string uname = "";
        string strUsrID = TextBox1.Text;
        string strpswrd = TextBox2.Text;
        DirectoryEntry de = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://DC=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=xx");
        de.Username = strUsrID;
        de.Password = strpswrd;
        DirectorySearcher ds = new DirectorySearcher(de);
        ds.SearchScope = SearchScope.Subtree;
        ds.Filter = "(&(objectCategory=User) (samAccountName=" + strUsrID + "))";

        ds.PropertiesToLoad.Add("sn");            // surname = last name
        ds.PropertiesToLoad.Add("givenName");  // given (or first) name
        try
        {
            SearchResult result = ds.FindOne();
            if (result != null)
                uname = result.Properties[TextBox3.Text].ToString();
            else
                Label1.Text = "Error: Not found";
        }
        catch (Exception f)
        {
            Label1.Text = "Error:" + f.Message;

        }

How to change it to display all information from AD for user name in TextBox3.Text ??

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Re: Change data in AD

Oct 15, 2015 08:24 AM|smirnov|LINK
You display only specific attribute
```
uname = result.Properties[TextBox3.Text].ToString();
```
To display other attributes, you need to specify them
```
string login = result.Properties["sAMAccountName"].ToString();
string phone = result.Properties["telephoneNumber"].ToString();
string email = result.Properties["mail"].ToString();
...
```
Note, that some of the attributes might be indexed, i.e. might be designed for multiple values and might need to be called with index, e.g.
```
string email = result.Properties["mail"][0].ToString();
```
Also note that it might be required to tell to LDAP that you want to get specific parameter using PropertiesToLoad collection
```
ds.PropertiesToLoad.Add("mail");
```
And if you want to display really all attributes, you could try to enumerate them as
```
foreach (string property in result.Properties.PropertyNames)
{
    properties += property + "=" + result.Properties[property].ToString() + "; ";
}
```
Hope this helps.
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Re: Change data in AD

Oct 19, 2015 02:53 AM|Kremius|LINK

Thanks. It's working. Now how to change those data and where can I find full list of parameters like sAMAccountName. Shortly, how to get any oher data (how they are called) ??

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Re: Change data in AD

Oct 26, 2015 11:42 AM|Kremius|LINK

Nothing about it that you can help me ?

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