We are responding to a tender, which as one point asks:

"Capability for the system to integrate with existing Active Directory user management."

I can use the Windows Login to automate the login into my application, but this a simple integration.

Does OI have any issues, benefits etc to be gained from AD, or has anyone had any experience integrating with it, and if so what things can be acheived.

Thanks

Colin

Colin, I have not seen an advantage to it, unless you want to grab their email addresses and any nuances to the group policies or user's profile.

I just use the winlogin services to get their NT login userID and use that through the code.

but I would want to explore it more for terminal services, as that is where I think the advantage would come in, as TS does come with its own set of challenges.

but I would want to explore it more for terminal services, as that is where I think the advantage would come in, as TS does come with its own set of challenges.

I don't want to take this off topic. Although when using terminal services you can get the environment variables by using GETENVIRONMENTVARIABLE. The most interesting ones for me are "COMPUTERNAME", "LOGONSERVER", "SESSIONNAME" and "USERNAME".

interesting, I have tried the getenvironment… before, without much luck, but maybe its time to revisit. thanks

I believe WMI can read and write ADS settings.

I have had good luck translating WMI examples from VBScript to OI's OLE syntax.

View this thread on the Works forum...