[THIN] Re: OT: populate AD user info
- From: Brian Lilley <Brian.Lilley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:33:18 -0000
Affirmative,
Copy that wingman...maintain current vectors.
So, to summarise.. cross the red with the blue..right got it...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 January 2004 11:16
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: populate AD user info
Uncanny - my background (post mainframe days) was as (among other
things) a UNIX 'C' systems programmer...
This could be a case for Mulder and Scully (said sotto voce) ;-)
Neil
PS: just for emphasis, don't go there with the WinNT provider and
opendsobject - trust me on that. And don't cross the red and blue
wires...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Lilley [mailto:Brian.Lilley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 January 2004 11:12
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: populate AD user info
>
> Once again... thanks Neil, re: the ts profile stuff, thats
> the conclusion I came to also, I did actually try and wrap
> the unmanaged exported terminal services api with .net but,
> like you say, trying to understand the parameters had me
> flumoxed, mostly because I don't come from the old 'C' days.
> So, I used tsprof in the end.... :o)
>
> cheers again, Brianos
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 January 2004 10:49
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: populate AD user info
>
> Comments inline...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Lilley [mailto:Brian.Lilley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 15 January 2004 10:34
> > To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: populate AD user info
> >
> > Neil,
> >
> > What is HTA???
>
> HTML application. Useful in this context, because you can do
> stuff, effectively in client-side browser code that would
> normally break, or be stopped, by the browser's security
> model. Plus you don't necessarily need a web server to provide for it.
>
> Things like add / remove programs in W2K are HTAs, as are
> other OS type dialogs / GUIs.
>
> > And while were on the subject...
> >
> > I am trying to pull out term services specific info for users via
> > the ADSI interface and the WinNT provider,
>
> Good luck with that! ;-)
>
> But seriously - ya can't - at least not like that. It was
> outside of ADSI (unless you truly are a steely-eyed missile
> man, and can decode
> userparameters?) - at least until you've got W2K3 across the board.
>
> > here is a VB script that
> > should work
>
> Um, good luck with that (TM) ;-)
>
> > Set DSO = GetObject("WinNT:")
> > Set usr = DSO.OpenDSObject("WinNT://OURDOMAIN/username01",
> > "OURDOMAIN\administratorid", "password", ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION)
>
> Quick tip - don't use opendsobject with the WinNT provider -
> otherwise, devils be there.
>
> > usr.GetInfo
> > WScript.echo usr.TerminalServicesProfilePath
> > WScript.echo usr.HomeDirectory
> > WScript.echo usr.FullName
> > WScript.echo usr.Description
>
> In the style of Brick Top: you're always going to have
> problems using the WinNT provider, and much user stuff - at
> least one of the above is only available via the LDAP provider.
>
> > when I run it, it bombs out with
> >
> > C:\temp\b.vbs(8, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Object doesn't
> > support this property or method: 'usr.TerminalServicesProfilePath'
>
> Quite reasonable - it doesn't. With W2K3, you can do it
> (although you may need to check the property name is
> accurate), but I believe you need W2K3 at more than one end.
>
> > if i query any 'standard' properties on the DSO object other than TS
> > related ones, it works fine?
>
> fullname should barf, too, via the WinNT provider.
>
> The problem being that these things are not true properties
> in the schema, they are part of a data blob - which is no
> doubt partly the reason why Microsoft stuck it to us with not
> being able to deal with these things with ADSI (at least
> vanilla) before W2K3.
>
> There are COM object distributed that wrap the API calls to
> do this for W2K environments - you'd have to register the
> appropriate DLL(s) and use objects exposed through them. Or
> there's tsprof - which is standard, so you could call this
> from within your vbscript, with the parameters selected or identified.
>
> There's also another utility - somewhere on thethin.net that
> allows you to modify all the TS properties from the command
> line, which you could call from within an ADSI script, so
> that you could set everything in one place.
>
> Neil
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