Clarification required about PrincipalContext security permissions and PrincipalContext's ContextType.Machine
asp.net-mvc,c#-4.0,active-directory,directoryservices,principalcontext
No, that would not be a correct assumption. ContextType.Machine means that you want to work with local accounts. Your PrincipalSearcher will end up searching the local SAM database rather than Active Directory...
PrincipalContext - I Can't connect to a local openldap server
As the official documentation on MSDN states: The System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement namespace provides uniform access and manipulation of user, computer, and group security principals across the multiple principal stores: Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), and Machine SAM (MSAM). System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement manages directory objects independent of...
Problems with extending s.ds.am.UserPrincipal class
vb.net,.net-4.0,userprincipal,extending-classes,principalcontext
PROBLEM 1 I was able to solve Problem 1 by adding the following to the top of the class after the Imports <DirectoryRdnPrefix("CN")> _ <DirectoryObjectClass("user")> _ PROBLEM 2 I have also been banging my head against this for to long and was finally able to resolve Problem 2. The DirectoryOU...