Active Directory for getting users

Active Directory

Active Directory (AD) is a directory service created by Microsoft.

Active Directory uses a number of standardized protocols to provide a variety of network services, including:

·        Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP, the industry standard directory access protocol, compatible with many management and query applications. Active Directory supports LDAPv3 and LDAPv2.

·        Optional Kerberos-based authentication

·        DNS-based naming and other network information

Code

Add a reference System.DirectoryServices and include in the application.

Step (i)  

       //It will automatically Get current Domain name

        DirectoryEntry direntry = new DirectoryEntry();

Or

       String strDomainName = "yourdomain.com”

//It will Get specified Domain name       

DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + strDomainName);

Step (ii)  

    //It will set specified Domain searcher

     DirectorySearcher dirsearcher = new DirectorySearcher(entry);

Step (iii)  

//It will filter the users from all searched details

dirsearcher.Filter = "(&(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=person))";

Step (iv)  

//Assigns all filtered collection to SearchResultCollection

SearchResultCollection sResult = dirsearcher.FindAll();

Step (iv)

//To get our values we need to assign to any string

if (null != sResult)

        {

            for (int i = 0; i < sResult.Count; i++)

            {

             //Storing in some collection

Strname[i] = sResult[i].Properties["name"][0].ToString();

Strnickname[i] = sResult[i].Properties["mailnickname"][0] .ToString();

Etc…

            }

       }

 

IIS Settings

·        Set webconfig authentication as windows

<authentication mode="Windows">

·        Set IIS Authentication->Windows Authentication to Enable  & Authentication->Anonymous Authentication to disable