active-directory
Active Directory – Check username / password
If you’re using .net 3.5 use this code instead. To authenticate a user: PrincipalContext adContext = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain); using (adContext) { return adContext.ValidateCredentials(UserName, Password); } If you need to find the user to R/W attributes to the object do this: PrincipalContext context = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain); UserPrincipal foundUser = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(context, “jdoe”); This is using the System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement … Read more
creating a user in Active Directory: A device attached to the system is not functioning
The sAMAccountName attribute must be 20 characters or less.
How to get “Company” and “Department” from Active Directory given a UserPrincipal object?
Actually, the question was how to get two of the properties for a .NET 3.5 (System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.)UserPrincipal-object not given a userPrincipalName. Here how to do that with an extension method: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.DirectoryServices; using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement; namespace MyExtensions { public static class AccountManagementExtensions { public static String GetProperty(this Principal principal, … Read more
Why TFS with GIT is not working from command line?
Windows Credentials -> Generic Credentials Then add a new item with “git:” in front of the http:// i.e.: git:http://Example.com add domain\user as user, and password
How can I verify if an AD account is locked?
The LockedOut property is what you are looking for among all the properties you returned. You are only seeing incomplete output in TechNet. The information is still there. You can isolate that one property using Select-Object Get-ADUser matt -Properties * | Select-Object LockedOut LockedOut ——— False The link you referenced doesn’t contain this information which … Read more
How can I find out which server hosts LDAP on my windows domain?
AD registers Service Location (SRV) resource records in its DNS server which you can query to get the port and the hostname of the responsible LDAP server in your domain. Just try this on the command-line: C:\> nslookup > set types=all > _ldap._tcp.<<your.AD.domain>> _ldap._tcp.<<your.AD.domain>> SRV service location: priority = 0 weight = 100 port = … Read more
using windows authentication with active directory groups as roles
For dev I am using IISExpress with development server properties of the MVC project set up so that Anonymous Authentication is Disabled and Windows Authentication is Enabled. The web config is deployed using our TFS build server to test and release servers for which authentication is also setup as above and works in those locations … Read more
LDAP root query syntax to search more than one specific OU
You can!!! In short use this as the connection string: ldap://<host>:3268/DC=<my>,DC=<domain>?cn together with your search filter, e.g. (&(sAMAccountName={0})(&((objectCategory=person)(objectclass=user)(mail=*)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))(memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=<some-special-nested-group>,OU=<ou3>,OU=<ou2>,OU=<ou1>,DC=<dc3>,DC=<dc2>,DC=<dc1>)))) That will search in the so called Global Catalog, that had been available out-of-the-box in our environment. Instead of the known/common other versions (or combinations thereof) that did NOT work in our environment with multiple OUs: ldap://<host>/DC=<my>,DC=<domain> … Read more
Why does Active Directory validate last password?
The reason why you are seeing this has to do with special behavior specific to NTLM network authentication. Calling the ValidateCredentials method on a PrincipalContext instance results in a secure LDAP connection being made, followed by a bind operation being performed on that connection using a ldap_bind_s function call. The authentication method used when calling … Read more