Setting Properties Displayed on Property Pages

• This topic provides code examples for setting the properties that appear in the property pages for users, which is accessed through the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap-in. If you have not used this snap-in before, you can open it on the server by selecting Start, All Programs, Administrative Tools, Active Directory Users and Computers. In the Users folder, use the shortcut menu (right-click) to choose a user name and select Properties. If you are setting up an application that allows a user to change information such as a home address, this is a useful piece of code to add to your application.

The following code example shows how to set common properties displayed in the General page.

usr.Properties["givenName"].Value = "New User";
usr.Properties["initials"].Value = "Ms";
usr.Properties["sn"].Value = "Name";
usr.Properties["displayName"].Value = "New User Name";
usr.Properties["description"].Value = "Vice President-Operation";
usr.Properties["physicalDeliveryOfficeName"].Value = "40/5802";
usr.Properties["telephoneNumber"].Value = "(425)222-9999";
usr.Properties["mail"].Value = "newuser@fabrikam.com";
usr.Properties["wWWHomePage"].Value = "https://www.fabrikam.com/newuser";
usr.Properties["otherTelephone"].AddRange(new 
string[]{"(425)111-2222","(206)222-5263"});
usr.Properties["url"].AddRange(new 
string[]{"https://newuser.fabrikam.com","https://www.fabrikam.com/officers"});
usr.CommitChanges();

The following code example shows how to set common properties displayed in the Address page.

usr.Properties["streetAddress"].Value = "2050 Fabrikam Way NE";
usr.Properties["postOfficeBox"].Value = "S/2523";
usr.Properties["l"].Value = "Sammamish";
usr.Properties["st"].Value = "Washington";
usr.Properties["postalCode"].Value = "98074";
usr.Properties["c"].Value = "US";
usr.CommitChanges();

The following code example shows how to set common properties displayed in the Account page.

usr.Properties["userPrincipalName"].Value = "newuser@fabrikam.com";
usr.Properties["sAMAccountName"].Value = "newuser";
usr.Properties["userWorkstations"].Value = "wrkst01,wrkst02,wrkst03";
usr.CommitChanges();

The User cannot change password setting is modified by adding or modifying certain access control entries on the user object. For more information about this, including code examples that demonstrate how to do this, see Managing User Passwords.

See Also

Reference

System.DirectoryServices

Concepts

User Management

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