Manipulating Groups

The IADsUser and IADsGroup interfaces have a few useful methods that are designated for enumerating groups and users.You could certainly directly access the appropriate properties — memberOf for user objects, and member for group objects — that are responsible for membership information. However, it is much more convenient to use the special access methods, especially when modifying memberships.

Note 

Refer Listing 17.13 for information on moving and renaming group accounts.

Which Groups Does a User Belong to?

The Groups method of the IADsUser interface allows you to enumerate all groups that a user belongs to. Here is a script that displays the names of the groups for a specified user account:

Listing 17.10. listOfGroups.vbs — Enumerating Groups

start example
    Dim objUser 'As IADsUser    Dim x 'As Variant    Set objUser = Getobject ("LDAP://CN=John Smith,OU=Staff,DC=net,DC=dom")    For Each x In objUser.Groups       WScript.Echo x.ADsPath       WScript.Echo x.Name       WScript.Echo x.distinguishedName, vbCrLf    Next 
end example

(The ADsPath value can be used for subsequent direct binding to a group object.)

Otherwise, you can directly read the value of the memberOf property and use the following statements, instead of the last five statements shown above:

    'Dim arrGroups As Variant    arrGroups = objUser.Get ("memberOf")    For Each x In arrGroups      WScript.Echo x    Next 
Caution 

Neither by using the Groups method nor by reading the memberOf property can you display a usets primary group, i. e. the Domain Users group (default for user accounts). (By default, the primary group for computer accounts is Domain Computers, and for DCs — Domain Controllers.) To see an account's primary group, bind to that account and use the Get method: object.Get ("primaryGroupID")

Who Are the Members of a Group?

By using the Members method of the IADsGroup interface, you can list all members — users or another groups — of the specified group. Here is a sample script:

Listing 17.11. listOfUsers.vbs — Enumerating Users

start example
    Dim objGroup 'As IADsGroup    Dim x 'As Variant    Set objGroup = Getobject ("LDAP: //CN=LocalGrp,OU=Staff, DC=net, DC=dom")    For Each x In objGroup.Members       WScript.Echo x.Class       WScript.Echo x.Name       WScript.Echo x.ADsPath       WScript.Echo x.distinguishedName + vbCrLf    Next 
end example

How Can One Add a Member to a Group?

Only one statement (shown in bold) is sufficient to add an account (user, computer, or group) to an existing group. Look at the following code snippet:

    Dim objGroup As IADsGroup    Set objGroup = Getobject ("LDAP: //CN=LocalGrp,OU=Staff, DC=net, DC=dom")    objGroup.Add ("LDAP: //CN=John Smith,OU=Staff,DC=net,DC=dom")    objGroup.SetInfo 



Windows  .NET Domains & Active Directory
Windows .NET Server 2003 Domains & Active Directory
ISBN: 1931769001
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 154

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