RE: Querying Active Directory

Hi Michael,

in VB.NET, you can query AD objects with System.DirectoryServices directly.
Here is an sample:

How to authenticate against the Active Directory by using forms
authentication and Visual Basic .NET
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326340

And:

Introduction to System.DirectoryServices
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/07/28/activedir.html

Hope this help,

Sincerely,

Luke Zhang

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