Dim something as IADsUser

[Iguana Frank]

Using vb.net, I saw a bunch of examples of using this variable type.
However, I never saw what I need to reference this, or didn't understand what
it was saying (more likely). All the examples start out with

Dim usr As IADsUser

But, I need more than that, since it tells me that IADsUser is not defined.

I have Imports System.Director yServices, but IADsUser is not an option.

I'm trying to figure out if an account is disabled.

Thanks!

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Re: Dim something as IADsUser

Hi,

Use directorysearch er with filter of objectclass=use r. IADsUser is
part of a com class it is not in the directoryservic es namespace.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...her_filter.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306271

Ken
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"Iguana Frank" <IguanaFrankSam NA@ifsna.ed> wrote in message
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Using vb.net, I saw a bunch of examples of using this variable type.
However, I never saw what I need to reference this, or didn't understand
what
it was saying (more likely). All the examples start out with

Dim usr As IADsUser

But, I need more than that, since it tells me that IADsUser is not defined.

I have Imports System.Director yServices, but IADsUser is not an option.

I'm trying to figure out if an account is disabled.

Thanks!

[Iguana Frank]

Re: Dim something as IADsUser

I probably didn't explain this far enough, or I'm still missing something. I
have the user as a directory entry, I'm looping through an OU, I didn't see
the difference that the searcher was able to do compared to what I have, I
could be confused.

The problem, that I have, with DirectoryEntry is that there doesn't appear
to be a way to get the Account Disabled property.

This is the path of my DirectoryEntry:

LDAP://CN=JoeUser,OU=U serAccounts,DC= ourdomain,DC=co mpany,DC=com

I can get to other proerties just fine:

msgbox DomainUser.Prop erties("GivenNa me") & " " & DomainUser.Prop erties("sn")

returns Joe User

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ema/c_user.asp

The disabled property is not in that above list.

Thanks!

"Ken Tucker [MVP]" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> Use directorysearch er with filter of objectclass=use r. IADsUser is
> part of a com class it is not in the directoryservic es namespace.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...her_filter.asp
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;306271
>
> Ken
> ---------------------
> "Iguana Frank" <IguanaFrankSam NA@ifsna.ed> wrote in message
> news:75C336D4-8F23-49F1-BA25-879AF201E324@mi crosoft.com...
> Using vb.net, I saw a bunch of examples of using this variable type.
> However, I never saw what I need to reference this, or didn't understand
> what
> it was saying (more likely). All the examples start out with
>
> Dim usr As IADsUser
>
> But, I need more than that, since it tells me that IADsUser is not defined.
>
> I have Imports System.Director yServices, but IADsUser is not an option.
>
> I'm trying to figure out if an account is disabled.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>[/color]

[Stampy]

The property you need to read to determine whether an account is disabled is the User-Account-Control field:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...untcontrol.asp

This is a bitmask that will contain a 2 if the account is disabled -- you can find information on how a bitmask works in this article by the MS scripting guys:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tec...y/default.aspx