You'll have to download the Sharepoint templates from Microsoft for Visual Studio and work on making a web part.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon Linan > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:28 AM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: WSS and AD. WebPart user information > > Frustrating!, :) sounds very hard to do for a .net newbie like me. I > have work with Zope and Plone before and everything is much easier... > Unluckily, we cant use Plone or other CMS I am more familiar with, and > I > need to create this "tool", webpart or whatever so the users can update > their contact info. > > I have done a few scripts in asp to display information from AD even to > change information in AD, my problem is how to do that inside > SharePoint, unless I can create an external page to do this and have a > link in the SharePoint site... > > Anyway, thanks for the info, I will get your book to see if figure > things out. > > Thanks > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Kaplan > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:13 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: WSS and AD. WebPart user information > > Ryan and I wrote a whole book that is essentially all about how you > might write such a thing (www.directoryprogramming.net), but we don't > have any pre-baked web parts in the samples. All the code is lower > level than that. > > We also have such a thing that we use internally (actually a server > control, not a full web part) that uses Ajax and a popup query form to > implement an "AD picker". Unfortunately, I can't share it outside the > company. > > The key to something like this is deciding how you want the security > model to work. You can basically either use the trusted subsystem > design (use a service account to query AD) or use the delegated model > (flow the authenticated user's security context through to AD). Since > SharePoint uses impersonation by default, the delegated model is what > you'll get unless you "change something" to implement the trusted > subsystem model. > > Delegation is hard to get working, as it requires implementing Kerberos > delegation, one of the black arts of Windows AD configuration stuff. > SharePoint tends to fight delegation as well, as versions before SP2 > actually disable Kerberos authentication in the IIS metabase when it is > installed. You have to undo that or get protocol transition working. > It can be icky. :) > > Joe K. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ramon Linan > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:30 PM > Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: WSS and AD. WebPart user information > > > Hi everyone, > > Does anyone knows of a web part for Windows SharePoint services 2 or 3 > to > grab information from AD users? > > I want to create a web part that will allow the user to update their > contact > information and update AD at the same time. > > > Thanks > > Rezuma > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx