Re: AD and VB.Net

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From: Chriss3 [MVP] (noSpamHere_at_chrisse.se)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:35:34 +0200

Bob the DN is wrong. with other words the LDAP source are wrong. I give you
an example for the DN to the administrator account

LDAP://CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=thelancairccompany,DC=com

More Info:

AD Schema DN Syntax:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adschema/adschema/s_object_ds_dn.asp

Choosing a AS Syntax
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ad/ad/choosing_a_syntax.asp 

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Regards
Christoffer Andersson
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
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"Bob" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:093001c48ea4$e7f6d2f0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I am having trouble getting some VB.Net code to add a
> user to that AD.  I'm getting a very odd error that I
> can't seem to get rid of and the cause is not making
> itself very clear.  Not to mention the fact that finding
> info on this error is rather tough.
>
> The error I get when try to add the user is:
>
> "An invalid dn syntax has been specified."
>
> It says it is taking place on the line of code in which I
> try to set the password for the new user.
>
> Here is my code as it stands now:
>
>             Dim de As New DirectoryEntry
> ("LDAP://CN=Users,DC=thelancaircompany,DC=com", "tlc\admin
> istrator", "Password", AuthenticationTypes.Encryption)
>             Dim user As DirectoryEntry = de.Children.Add
> ("testa", "user")
>             Dim pass As New Object()
>
>             pass = "NewPassword"
>
>             user.Properties("SAMAccountName").Value
> = "testa"
>             user.Properties("userPrincipalName").Value
> = "testa"
>             user.Properties("scriptpath").Value
> = "start.bat"
>             user.Properties("givenname").Value = "test"
>             user.Properties("sn").Value = "test"
>             user.Properties("displayname").Value = "test
> a. test"
>             user.Properties("department").Value
> = "Accounting"
>             user.Properties("initials").Value = "A"
>             user.Properties("profilepath").Value
> = "\\condor\files\users\profiles\testa" '& AD1.UserName
>             user.Invoke("SetPassword", pass)
>
>             user.CommitChanges()
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA

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