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Active Directory, 3rd Edition
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Active Directory, 3rd Edition

by Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
January 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
832 pages
27h 52m
English
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Creating a Group

Now we will move on to creating groups . Creating a group is very similar to creating a user. You use the same IADsContainer::Create method:

    Set objGroup = objSalesOU.Create("group", "cn=Managers")
    objGroup.Put "sAMAccountName", "Managers"
    objGroup.SetInfo

This code assumes we already have a pointer to an OU in the objSalesOU variable. The IADs::Put method is used to set the sAMAccountName, a mandatory attribute in Windows 2000 AD with no default value, just like with users.

The IADsGroup interface that operates on group objects supports four methods and one property that is specific to the group object, as listed in Table 23-4.

Table 23-4. The IADsGroup interface

IADsGroup methods and properties

Action

Add

Adds users to the group as members

Remove

Removes user members from the group

IsMember

Tests to see if a user is a member of a group

Members

Returns a list of all the members of the group

Description

Returns the text describing the group

In Example 23-7, we show how to create a group with both the WinNT and LDAP providers.

Example 23-7. Creating a group with both the WinNT and LDAP providers

Option Explicit Dim objDomain, objGroup, objComputer 'Creating a group in a Windows NT domain Set objDomain = GetObject("WinNT://MYDOMAIN") Set objGroup = objDomain.Create("group","MyGroup") ObjGroup.SetInfo 'Creating a local group on a computer or member server 'Valid for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 Set objComputer = GetObject("WinNT://MYCOMPUTER") ...
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