Corection: // add “Sky Color = green” should throw an exception with // ex.message = green is not a valid color value for the // Sky Color attribute. deUserColorNode.Properties[“Sky Color”].Add(“blue”);
The last line should read: deUserColorNode.Properties[“Sky Color”].Add(“green”); - Ray On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:02:53 -0700, Ray Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to modify the Active Directory schema. Does anyone know of >effective sample code or instruction to accomplish this with .NET? > >Basically, I need to do two things: >1. Create custom properties (or modify the existing custom properties >already defined) on the ‘user’ schema and elsewhere in Active Directory. >2. Create new nodes with custom properties on the ‘user’ schema and >elsewhere in Active Directory. > >However, I don’t want the property fields to accept bogus entries. I want >to enforce that the property fields are used for a specific set of >enumerated names and values. For example: > >DirectoryEntry deUserColorNode = >new DirectoryEntry(“LDAP://cn=somewhere under user” + > “. . . dc=whatever . . .”); > >// add “Sky Color = blue” should work OK >deUserColorNode.Properties[“Sky Color”].Add(“blue”); > >// add “Eye Color = brown” should work OK >deUserColorNode.Properties[“Eye Color”].Add(“brown”); > >deUserColorNode.CommitChanges(); // OK - We’re cool! > > >// add “Sky Color = green” should throw an exception with >// ex.message = green is not a valid color value for the >// Sky Color attribute. >deUserColorNode.Properties[“Sky Color”].Add(“blue”); > > >// add “BoBo = Clown” should throw an exception with >// ex.message = BoBo is not a valid color property >// name and Clown is not a valid color value. >deUserColorNode.Properties[“BoBo”].Add(“clown”) > >deUserColorNode.CommitChanges(); // should go BOOM! > >This is similar (I think) to Active Directory modifications made by >Exchange 2000 (i.e., during setup/ForestPrep and setup/DomainPrep). > >Is there a ‘clean’ way to do this with .NET? Do I have to use interop to >COM? I’ve found several good articles in MSDN; unfortunately, most of them >seem to suffer from bad links, and none dealt clearly extending the schema >with .NET. > >Any suggestions? > > >Thanks, > >Ray > >You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or >subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
