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Encapsulates and exposes some principals or constructors of the active directory userprincipal class.

Encapsulates and exposes some principals or constructors of the active directory userprincipal class.

Link: UserPrincipal Methods

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UserPrincipal extensions returns computers

I'm pretty new to active directory and I'm currently working on a library for a project to easily manage our active directory objects like users, resources, groups and so on. The library is in .NetStandard 2.0 and I use the Principal classes…
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Can I get the User Department from Active Directory using PrincipalContext()

I am trying to get the user's department from Active Directory. I have the following class: public class DomainContext { public string DisplayName { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public string SamAccountName {…
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UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity results in COM error 0x80005000

I've an MVC Intranet app that I've recently upgraded from .Net 4 to 4.6.1. This app queries user details from Active Directory to load details that aren't available in the Controller's User.Identity property and until lately has done so flawlessly.…
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ASP.NET MVC 5: App Pool, Windows Authentication and Active Directory

Background: I have an MVC 5/C# app that interfaces an outside API. It uses the Active Directory users' Principal Context for authorization. The app checks if the UserPrincipal.Current has their Un/Pw combo stored in the Db to be used for any…
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Editing registry value for newly created user

I have a .NET application that creates a new local user like so: var principalContext = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Machine); var userPrincipal = new UserPrincipal(principalContext); userPrincipal.Name =…
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How to Get Current User Principal

I want to use Windows Authentication and get User info such as Givenname, Surname, etc. I used UserPrincipal.Current in IIS and I got an exception, but IIS express looks fine.
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Setting DistinguishedName using UserPrincipal

When using DirectoryEntry, it is possible to set the CN of the new user account, but how to do it using UserPrincipal? The property is readonly. // From : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc135979.aspx DirectoryEntry container = new…
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Fetching list of locked AD users throws error. Am I using incorrect search terms?

first of all, I'm fairly new to programming in general. I'm working on a simple monitoring tool. I'm trying to get a list of all locked AD users. Thanks to stackoverflow I found someone who once had the same question, unfortunately his answer does…
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Getting error while finding AD Groups of a user using PrincipalContext

I have a situation where I need to find AD groups of a user recursively. For Example : I have such group hierarchy - Group1 |_ Group2 |_ Group3 |_ UserA According to the hierarchy, Groups of UserA are…
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Could not create a service principal with the right permissions

I'm trying to run command: az acs create --orchestrator-type kubernetes --resource-group myResourceGroup --agent-count 1 --name myK8SCluster --generate-ssh-keys Which should generate principal and then kubernetes cluster. But there is error: Could…
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Is pageContext.request.userPrincipal stored in session? Can I get password too?

I'm learning Spring security and as I understand by using request.getUserPrincipal() we could access the name, we could get the name with pageContext.request.userPrincipal.name , This is my code (everything is working) : <%@taglib prefix="c"…
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PrincipalContext and error Value was invalid

I have a WCF service with the code: var ctx = new PrincipalContext(IsLocalMachine(strDomain) ? ContextType.Machine : ContextType.Domain); Principal principal = Principal.FindByIdentity(ctx, name) I have 3 different test environments: 1: IIS 8.5 …
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Log Out a User in MVC 5 Using a Custom ActionFilterAttribute

I have a custom ActionFilterAttribute that makes sure a value in the Session matches a value in the database. If the values don't match, it redirects the user to the Login action on the AccountController. public class CheckSessionAttribute :…
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Where does user.identity.name (c#) get its value?

I'm pretty sure it does not get it from AD, although we are using AD internally. THe issue I am having is with an app that gets the current users name with user.identity.name, and tacks on the @mycompany.com then uses it to send emails from within…
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asp.net application userprincipal.findbyidentity works with browser on server, throws exception from my machine

I have an application that is running on an IIS 7 server, in this program I need to find all the groups that the current user is a member of. When I access the website using the browser on the server, it works perfectly, but when I try to access it…
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