The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming

Basics of Writing Attribute Values 234 Writing COM Interop Types 241 Chapter 7: Active Directory and ADAM Schema 247 Schema Extension Best Practices 247 Choosing an Object Class 251 Choosing Attribute Syntaxes 253 Modeling One-to-Many and Many-to-Many Relationships 256 Search Flags and Indexing 261 Techniques for Extending the Schema 264 Discovering Schema Information at Runtime 266 Chapter 8: Security in Directory Services Programming 273 Binding and Delegation 274 Directory Object Permissions in Active Directory and ADAM 300 Code Access Security 315 Chapter 9: Introduction to the ActiveDirectory Namespace 325 Working with the DirectoryContext Class 326 Locating Domain Controllers 332 Understanding the Active Directory RPC APIs 339 Useful Shortcuts for Developers 339 Part II: Practical Applications 345Chapter 10: User Management 347 Finding Users 347 Creating Users 351 Managing User Account Features 353 Managing Passwords for Active Directory Users 376 Managing Passwords for ADAM Users 386 Determining User Group Membership in Active Directory and ADAM 389 Chapter 11: Group Management 397 Creating Groups in Active Directory and ADAM 397 Manipulating Group Membership 400 Expanding Group Membership 403 Primary Group Membership 409 Foreign Security Principals 413 Chapter 12: Authentication 417 Authentication Using SDS 418 Authentication Using SDS.P 424 Authentication Using SSPI 428 Discovering the Cause of Authentication Failures 431 Part III: Appendixes 433Appendix A: Three Approaches to COM Interop with ADSI 435 The Standard Method 435 The Reflection Method 437 Handcrafted COM Interop Declarations 439 Appendix B: LDAP Tools for Programmers 443 LDP 443 ADSI Edit 445 Active Directory Users and Computers 445 LDIFDE 446 ADFind/ADMod 447 BeaverTail LDAP Browser 447 Softerra LDAP Browser 448 Appendix C: Troubleshooting and Help 449 Error 0x8007203A: "The server is not operational." 449 Error 0x8007052E: "Login Failure: unknown user name or bad password." 450 Error 0x80072020: "An operations error occurred." 450 Error 0x80072030: "There is no such object on the server." 451 Error 0x8007202F: "A constraint violation occurred." 451 Error 0x80072035: "The server is unwilling to process the request." 452 Error 0x80070005: "General access denied error." 452 InvalidOperationException from DirectorySearcher 452 Getting Help 453 Index 455