Re: SDS.AM Extensions

[Bob Weiner]

didn't get a lot of love from the dotnet.framewor k group. Maybe someone
here has some experience with AD programming.

Thanks, bob


"Bob Weiner" <BobWeiner@comm unity.nospamwro te in message
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>I like the new System.Director yServices.Accou ntManagement namespace. It
>seems like it will make a lot of things easier to manage.
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I am having trouble understanding how to extend and use the UserPrincipal
to get some things done. These include searching and updating the
proxyAddresses attribute for users. I tried to do this by Extending the
UserPrincipal as follows:
[DirectoryObject Class("User")]
[DirectoryRdnPre fix("CN")]
public class Account : UserPrincipal {
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// Constructor
public Account(Princip alContext ou, string samAccountName, string
password) : base(ou, samAccountName, password, true) { }
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[DirectoryProper ty("proxyAddres ses")]
public string[] ProxyAddresses {
get {
int len = ExtensionGet("p roxyAddresses") .Length;
string[] addresses = new string[len];
object[] addressesRaw = ExtensionGet("p roxyAddresses") ;
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
addresses[i] = (string)address esRaw[i];
}
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return addresses;
}
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set { ExtensionSet("p roxyAddresses", value); }
}
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I can use this to create a new account (User) in the AD but cannot use it
to retrieve the proxyAddresses. The various find methods only return
Principals or UserPrincipals and I cannot cast them to Account. I am
using http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb552835.aspx as a model to
work from.
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How can I access/update/search the proxyAddresses field for users?
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Thanks, bob
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