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Filed under Web Development on May 12, 2008 at 12:55 pm.
Recently I updated a Web application I built last year to use Active Directory as a way of user authenication instead of prompting for usernames and passwords.
I have not worked with ASP.NET much so my knowledge is poor especially the AD connector objects. However I thought it might be nice to share my example it since it was relevative easy to complete...
First of all, let me explain what is happening!
In my VB, I first get the username of the person logged into the machine on our network. This username value comes back as: DOMAINusername.
I then connect to AD and pass my username. Notice i'm splitting the username value as I don't need the DOMAIN part...
Once a connection is made, I retrieve some details like the users Firstname, Lastname and Email address. I have also included the member security groups since some pages of the application were controlled this way...
Obviously there is alot more happening and what I have posted below is just an exmaple to display the information from AD. You could take this futher by storing this info in a Session so you could reuse it throughout the Web Application.
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