Frustrating!, :) sounds very hard to do for a .net newbie like me. I have work with Zope and Plone before and everything is much easier... Unluckily, we cant use Plone or other CMS I am more familiar with, and I need to create this "tool", webpart or whatever so the users can update their contact info.
I have done a few scripts in asp to display information from AD even to change information in AD, my problem is how to do that inside SharePoint, unless I can create an external page to do this and have a link in the SharePoint site... Anyway, thanks for the info, I will get your book to see if figure things out. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Kaplan Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: WSS and AD. WebPart user information Ryan and I wrote a whole book that is essentially all about how you might write such a thing (www.directoryprogramming.net), but we don't have any pre-baked web parts in the samples. All the code is lower level than that. We also have such a thing that we use internally (actually a server control, not a full web part) that uses Ajax and a popup query form to implement an "AD picker". Unfortunately, I can't share it outside the company. The key to something like this is deciding how you want the security model to work. You can basically either use the trusted subsystem design (use a service account to query AD) or use the delegated model (flow the authenticated user's security context through to AD). Since SharePoint uses impersonation by default, the delegated model is what you'll get unless you "change something" to implement the trusted subsystem model. Delegation is hard to get working, as it requires implementing Kerberos delegation, one of the black arts of Windows AD configuration stuff. SharePoint tends to fight delegation as well, as versions before SP2 actually disable Kerberos authentication in the IIS metabase when it is installed. You have to undo that or get protocol transition working. It can be icky. :) Joe K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ramon Linan To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:30 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: WSS and AD. WebPart user information Hi everyone, Does anyone knows of a web part for Windows SharePoint services 2 or 3 to grab information from AD users? I want to create a web part that will allow the user to update their contact information and update AD at the same time. Thanks Rezuma List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
