[THIN] Re: OT: populate AD user info

  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:32:39 +1100


I'll check on our 2k3 native domain tomorrow 

john

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2004 11:27 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: populate AD user info

I didn't think it would have been changed - it would have been too much
of a change, IMHO, to the schema, for legacy platforms / applications.

userparameters is where all this stuff lives.

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Durbin [mailto:techlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 January 2004 20:49
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: populate AD user info
> 
> I just used ADSIEdit to look at the properties of a user in a 
> Win2K3 domain, and I don't see anything at all that 
> references TS Profile Path or TS Home Drive. I suppose one of 
> us is going to have to register the Win2K3 dll on a 2K box and try it!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
> Sent: 17 January 2004 6:45 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: populate AD user info
> 
> 
> Comments inline...
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Lynch [mailto:lynch00@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 16 January 2004 17:32
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: populate AD user info
> > 
> > 
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> > This is correct.  The properties have always been there within AD.
> 
> Clearly - but they are not independant properties, that you 
> can see in the schema. They are properties that are encoded 
> within userParameters, as a data blob.
> 
> I haven't looked at the schema on a W2K3 upgraded directory 
> to see if that's changed, but that's the way it is for W2K.
> 
> > There just hasn't been an ActiveX component to
> > expose these properties.
> 
> There has always been API calls for this - that's how come 
> ADU&C and usrmgr was always able to alter these parameters 
> individually.
> 
> > It's not that ADSI has been
> > updated,
> 
> It must have been updated - if you look at the code, it's 
> actually using IADsUser type objects - which is why I suspect 
> it won't work on unmodified (by that I mean not just merely 
> added to) W2K machines.
> 
> > but rather a DLL has been added to expose these
> > properties.
> 
> There's been plenty of DLLs written (freeware, in the main) 
> to wrap the TS API calls and expose them as objects usable by 
> scripting languages.
> 
> This appears to be different, though, because you *don't* 
> need to reference any alien, or new objects - merely new 
> parameters or methods.
> 
> > I sent a message to the list with the DLL name
> > and also a link to some sample code on MSDN.
> > 
> > I haven't tried registering the DLL on a Windows 2000 
> machine yet, nor 
> > attempting to use it with code on a 2000 box.
> 
> If I was to guess, I'd say it wouldn't work - not without at 
> least replacing some DLLs - but again, I could be wrong.
> 
> Neil

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