Re: WMI - query AD group membership

Thanks James,

trouble is the WMI query expression needs to go into a framework product which then executes it on a remote client. The framework intermediate lanaguage only allows the use of Win32 classes. If I was given the choice I would've used ADSI and never posted here!!! :D

So that's back to square one - any ideas if there's a way how to get this information using WMI. It would also work if I was able to parse from some other place (registry or config file) but afaik there isn't place like this anywhere on the machine.

Rad

James Crosswell wrote: 
Charlie Root wrote:

- I can't use ADSI, only Win32 WMI classes are available 


What kind of programming language are you using?

You REALLY should use ADSI for this - WMI sucks at Active Directory stuff (I've had info that took over an hour to fetch using WMI that was obtained in around 6 seconds via ADSI). Seriously, use the tool for the job and if your current programming language doesn't let you get at ADSI then I'd recommend you use another one.

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