[WD12] Access to Active Directory

Hi,

does anybody know, how to get the information stored in the 'Active directory' in a Windows environment ?

Need to know for example the email address for the current user which is stored there.

Thanks

Erik

Hi Erik,

I believe there are standard LDAPxxx functions in WD. Since AD is an LDAP this should allow you to gain access.

Cheers,

Hi Peter,

this seems to be the way to go, thank you

Erik

Hi all,

I truly wish you luck using the LDAP connection in Windev to manage AD. I haven't tested the WD12 ldap but with WB11 I ended up creating a class in WB that calls supplemental vbscripts to manage AD. Requesting info from AD with windev is no problem, however, when you start to set values such as passwords, expect issues.

So essentially creating a generic VB script handler that I pass various commands and parameters in to.

Let us know how it goes.

Cheers!
Ken

Hi Ken,

thank you for the hints. The only thing I need to do is to verify user and password with Windev. If I understand you right, that seems to be no problem. Nevertheless I always do some test programs to check what will do and what won't do, before I promise it to my customer.

chiao

Erik

Hi Erik,

If I remember correctly I couldn't touch the password at all. I could query values like name, email, phone number, but the password was off limits through a plain LDAP connection. This was the main reason I had to switch to the generic script. I need to create / delete / modify Active Directory User accounts.

Cheers!
ken

PS. Again, this may now be possible in WD12 / 14