Ellliot,
Long time no hear! Your comments on ADSI and LDAP sprung a couple of
thoughts from my mind I thought others might like to hear.
> I use an asp page via cfhttp to get the ADSI stuff from NT (very
> easy in asp) - tried the COM components from CF but no luck.
ColdFusion can't call the GetObject function in Visual Basic or VBScript/ASP
that is needed to instantiate the ADSI objects. Another M$ ploy no doubt.
The Thomas Eck book, "ADSI Scripting for System Administration" provides us
VB code in which we can create a COM object to run the administration
functions. This COM object, NTAdmin.dll, allows CF to call and run just
about any ADSI administrative function through a cfm page.
Johnathan Gifford of Devon Energy ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) is developing
a sweet cf_adsi tag that pretty much does all the calls.
> Tried CFLDAP but docs are poor.
> Tried Allaire's Net.Functions COM object but obviously no docs on
> 'secret' stuff like that.
CFLDAP won't work with Active Directory as AD does not appear to be an LDAP
server. Yet another M$ ploy for world domination. I'd love for someone to
prove me wrong on this as it has frustrated me to death. I have a lengthy
note on the topic but one comment from the MS KB says it all,
Stand-Alone "LDAP://"; Query Does Not Work
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q220/5/94.ASP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Q220594 - When you attempt a
stand-alone query using LDAP://, you may receive the following error
message: An error occurred while performing the search. Your
computer, your Internet service provider, or the specified directory
service may be disconnected. Check your connections and try again.
(updated 9/6/2000)
"may receive the following error" is not the right phrase here... it
appears to just fail and the MS solution is to use their "People
Finder" tool that comes with Windows --> just peachy.
-- Geoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Director - Daemon Internet Consultants
Allaire Master Instructor
http://www.daemon.com.au
p. +61 2 9380 4162 % f. +61 2 9380 4204
17 Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth Bay NSW 2011 Australia
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