Enumerate AD groups

[Ray Cassick \(Home\)]

Can anyone point the way to some code I can use to get a listing of all the
groups in AD?

I am writing an application that is setting some access rights and before it
goes about it business I want to have the app check to make sure that the
groups it will be using are actually present. I have code that enumerates
the groups that belong to a specific user but nothing that will actually
just give me a listing of available groups.



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[Leon Mayne [MVP]]

I am writing an application that is setting some access rights and
before it goes about it business I want to have the app check to make
sure that the groups it will be using are actually present. I have
code that enumerates the groups that belong to a specific user but
nothing that will actually just give me a listing of available groups.

Depends on how your AD is setup. If you have it set up so your groups are
listed under e.g. OU=Groups,DC=yourdomain,DC=com then you should just be
able to loop through the contents of that OU and get the CNs of all the
groups underneath it.

There's some code at http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/ActiveDONavigator.asp
which might help with looping through the groups.

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Try this with the filter is objectclass=group

http://www.windowsformsdatagridhelp.com/default.aspx?ID=2b7d8d24-665f-43d4-9553-9c76953e41cf

Ken

 

[Guest]

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more that you guys have put on the site? Shouldn't it read something like
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[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

It started off as a place to post datagrid tips because the
syncfusion website was having issues then. It kind of grew from there.

Ken