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Saturday, April 08, 2006

 


access ADSI WinNT provider from Monad Part 2



In my first post about accessing the WinNt provider from MSH, MSH access NT provider I used an ugly workaround using inline VB.NET code.

I found a better solution (inspired by James truher's get-lastlogon example on MonadSource)

This one first loads the microsoft.visualbasic namespace,
then uses the GetObject method of the microsoft.visualbasic.interaction class to get the Com-Object.

after that I will use the InvokeMember Method on the type, using Reflection binding flags to call the method or Property.

# Get-Admins.msh 
#
# gets the users in the admininstrators group
# using Visualbasic namespace, reflection and the WinNT provider
# /\/\o\/\/ 2006 
# http://mow001.blogspot.com 

[void][reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("microsoft.visualbasic")

$Group = [microsoft.visualbasic.interaction]::GetObject("WinNT://./administrators,group",$null)
$GroupType = $Group.gettype()

$im = [reflection.bindingflags]::InvokeMethod
$gp = [reflection.bindingflags]::GetProperty
"Group:";""
$GroupType.invokemember("name",$gp,$null,$Group,$null)
"Members :";""
$members = $GroupType.invokemember("members",$im,$null,$Group,$null)
$members | foreach  {
  $userType = $_.gettype()
  $userType.invokemember("name",$gp,$null,$_ ,$null)
  $userType.invokemember("AdsPath",$gp,$null,$_ ,$null)
  ""
}



It's still a bit "Hacked" way to do this, but I think it's much better as the VB.NET one ;-)

This makes it realy possible to make much better use of the WinNT provider from MSH
We are still "working in the Dark", as we can not use GM, but You can use the ADSI WinNT Provider doc's in the SDK on MSDN to get help on the properties and methods.

enjoy,

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Comments:
Anonymous Anonymous
We really need WinNT provider. This is cool but I still do not feel comfortible. Maybe I should wait for version 2.
 
Anonymous Anonymous
I do a search on ADSI WINNT and found this: http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread235336.html
It actually work when I do this:
$rootEntry = new-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("WinNT://.")
$rootEntry.get_Children()|%{$_.get_Name(), $_.get_Path()}
 
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