principalcontext

We are making use of ADLDS for our user management and authentication. We can successfully query the instance without problems. However, trying to perform an operation such as SetPassword will fail or even trying to create a new user if a password is not set, it fails. I can successfully update a user as long as its not password I'm trying to update. I've been reading a lot of different articles relating to this but not finding a resolution. Posting to see if I can get some fresh perspective on this issue, thanks for any input. EXAMPLE ContextType ctxType = ContextType.ApplicationDirectory;

I trying to search my organization Active directory for users. If the FirstName or LastName or DisplayName matches a particular string value, it should return the users. My Code: // create your domain context PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain); UserPrincipal qbeUser = new UserPrincipal(ctx); qbeUser.GivenName = "Ramesh*"; // qbeUser.Surname = "Ramesh*"; // qbeUser.DisplayName= "Ramesh*"; PrincipalSearcher srch = new PrincipalSearcher(qbeUser); // find all matches foreach(var found in srch.FindAll()) { // } The problem is that I am able to search by only one filter.

I have a WCF service which contains a Login method that validates a username and password against the local machine credentials, and after a seemingly random period of time it will stop working for some users. The actual login command looks like this: public UserModel Login(string username, string password, string ipAddress) { // Verify valid parameters if (username == null || password == null) return null; try { using (var pContext = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Machine)) { // Authenticate against local machine if (pContext.ValidateCredentials(username, password)) { // Authenticate user

I am using LdapAuthentication to log a user into Active Directory. I want to find all the groups that the user belongs to. I am using the following code: string adPath = "LDAP://OU=HR Controlled Users,OU=All Users,DC=myDomain,DC=local"; LdapAuthentication adAuth = new LdapAuthentication(adPath); try { if (true == adAuth.IsAuthenticated("myDomain", txtLoginEmail.Text, txtLoginPassword.Text)) { string email = txtLoginEmail.Text; using (PrincipalContext context = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain)) { UserPrincipal user = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(context, IdentityType.Name, email);

I've been at this for a while and I'm always getting: System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.PrincipalServerDownException Which I think means my connection setup(connection string) is wrong. When I write "dsquery server" on cmd on the computer where the Active Directory is I get: "CN=DCESTAGIO,CN=SERVERS,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=estagioit,DC=local" I've tried the following connecting in the following ways: 1: PrincipalContext thisPrincipalContext = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "192.168.56.101", "DC=estagioit,DC=local"); 2: PrincipalContext