A Quick Look at Directory Services

Digging through Active Directory

by William Ryan

If you aren't familiar with it, Active Directory has more good stuff in it than you can imagine.  If you've every wanted to list all of your Active Directory Resources, you're only 6 lines of code away from doing it!

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load         Dim de As New DirectoryEntry("WinNT://infoprogroup") ' Put the name of your         Dim computer As DirectoryEntry         '   MessageBox.Show(de.SchemaClassName)         Dim wi As WindowsIdentity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent         'MessageBox.Show(wi.Name.ToString & " " & wi.IsGuest.ToString)         For Each computer In de.Children             ListBox1.Items.Add(computer.Name)         Next End Sub