directoryservices

Question: I use the code found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306273 to add a windows user. The problem is i need to add the user to a group, but the groupnames are localized. E.g. the MS-example uses an english computer, which means you can get the guest group like this: grp = AD.Children.Find("Guests", "group") But on a non-english computer, the 'Guest' groupname is localized, meaning for example on my german language OS, the group name for Guests is "Gäste". Which means for the support example to run on my computer i need to change that line to grp = AD.Children.Find("Gäste", "group")

I have an application that uses ActiveDirecotry authorisation and it has been decided that it needs to support nested AD groups, e.g.: MAIN_AD_GROUP | |-> SUB_GROUP | |-> User So, the user in not directly a member of MAIN_AD_GROUP . I'd like to be able to look for the user recursively, searching the groups nested in MAIN_AD_GROUP . The main problem is that I'm using .NET 3.5 and there is a bug in System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement in .NET 3.5 whereby the method UserPrincipal.IsMemberOf() will not work for groups with more than 1500 users . So I can't use UserPrincipal.IsMemberOf() and

I'm having trouble hunting down an issue where an ASP.NET 4 application fails while trying to get user groups for a given user from time to time. The application pool associated with this application is setup to run under ApplicationPoolIdentity. Exception Info System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException HRESULT: 80072020 Message: An operations error occurred. Extended Message: 000004DC: LdapErr: DSID-0C0906E8, comment: In order to perform this operation a successful bind must be completed on the connection., data 0, v1db1 Stack Trace System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind