Read/Write to Active Directory

[paulyp]

Gday all

I have had a look but could'nt find any documentation, but my boss has asked me today if we are able to read/write to our active directory through A5V8 ?

Can anyone provide any info on this at all ?

Thanks

Paul

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: Read/Write to Active Directory

Not sure what you mean by your "active directory".

Not sure what you mean by being able to "read/write".

If you could be more specific you'll stand a better chance of getting a helpful answer.

Alpha Five's xbasic language includes the tools one would use to read and write text files in directories on your machine, or across the network to your server. The import/export/append utilities may also be of interest to you. Hard to say until you clarify what you are talking about. What is it that you are interested in doing?

[aschone]

Re: Read/Write to Active Directory

I have not seen any Xbasic commands that would allow reading or writing to Active Directory.

It is possible to write a VB script to perform your active directory operations and then call the script from within Alpha5.

There are probably other ways to do what you want.

[paulyp]

Re: Read/Write to Active Directory

Hi Tom - the underneath will helpfully shed a little light on what we are trying to acheive.

Our requirement to read and write from Windows 2003 Server Active Directory is so that we can stream line processes such as when new employee's start with the company, we will use the Alfa 5 application to enrol the details of the new staff member. The details of the staff member will be recorded in the employee tables. On top of this we would like to automate the creation of the windows logon. The details that we will need to write to the Active directory are: First Name, Last Name, Phone Number, Cell/Mobile Number, Logon Name, Password, Account Expiry Date.

The second request of read from Windows Active Directory is to enable us to interface in to the building access control system. We need to hourly export the details of all users in Windows Active Directory and then update the details in the building access control database to ensure that the details in the access control system are always up to date.

Reference to Windows Active Directory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory

Can Alpha 5 support LDAP?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...asicLDAPSyntax

Thanks
Paul

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: Read/Write to Active Directory

Sorry, can't help. Thought you were talking about the current directory. You're talking about something else entirely. -- tom

[Marcel Kollenaar]

Re: Read/Write to Active Directory

Andrew made it already clear. You can use vbscript and wscript objects in Xbasic. Search for ldap look here.

All this can be translated with some effort into Xbasic. There are translation examples enough here. The vba examples for Excel and Word will suffice.

[paulyp]

Re: Read/Write to Active Directory

Thanks guys

It does look quite do-able. Thanks for the links Marcel.

Paul