Microsoft KB Archive/197948

= How To Get Domain Information Using ADSI =

Article ID: 197948

Article Last Modified on 10/9/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Active Directory Service Interfaces 2.0
 * Microsoft Active Directory Service Interfaces 2.5

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This article was previously published under Q197948



SUMMARY
You can use the Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) to obtain network domain information from within Visual FoxPro. This article shows an example of how to obtain this information.



MORE INFORMATION
NOTE: To use the following example, you must install the Active Directory Service from the following Web site or the Microsoft Developer Network CD:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/activedirectory/default.mspx

ADSI is a COM-based interface for accessing directory services. You can treat each element of the network, such as users, printers, and computers, as an object. Accessing the properties of the domain object allows the developer to get information about the domain. The following code demonstrates how to do this. Save the following code to a program file and run the program.

Sample Code
*-- Code begins here. oDomain = Getobject("WinNT://MyDomain")
 * -- Replace MyDomain with a valid domain name.

lsInfo = "Minimum Password Length: " + ;
 * -- Collect the properties of the oDomain object and display them.

STR(oDomain.MinPasswordLength) + CHR(13) + ; "Minimum Password Age: " + ; STR(oDomain.MinPasswordAge) + CHR(13) + ; "Maximum Password Age: " + ; STR(oDomain.MaxPasswordAge) + CHR(13) + ; "Maximum Bad Passwords: " + ; STR(oDomain.MaxBadPasswordsAllowed) + CHR(13) + ; "Password History Length: " + ; STR(oDomain.PasswordHistoryLength) + CHR(13) + ; "Auto Unlock Interval: " + ; STR(oDomain.AutoUnlockInterval) + CHR(13) + ; "Lock Out Observation Interval: " + ; STR(oDomain.LockOutObservationInterval)

WAIT WINDOW lsInfo
 * -- Code ends here

