Q167801 - ADSI WinNT (ADSNT.DLL) Provider Fixes

ADSI WinNT (ADSNT.DLL) Provider Fixes

Q167801

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK), used with:
- The Microsoft Windows NT operating system
- x86

SUMMARY

The accompanying files are replacements for the ADS.EXE runtime kit distributed with ADSI 1.0. This patch changes the following Windows NT provider properties:



                        IADsUser                        Accessible via
                        Interface                       IADsUser::Get
Property Name           Property        Write           or Put
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

AccountDisabled         Y               Y               -
AccountExpirationDate   Y               Y               get/put
IsAccountLocked         Y               N               -
                                        Can set only from TRUE to FALSE.

LastLogin               Y               N               get
LastLogoff              Y               N               get
        For the above 2, receive error '5' if values unset,
        that is, the user never logged in or out.

PasswordExpirationDate  Y               N               -
MinPasswordLength       Y               N               get
MinPasswordAge          N               N               get
MaxPasswordAge          N               N               get
PasswordHistoryLength   N               N               get
PasswordExpired         N               Y               get/put
        Equivalent to the 'must change password at next login' User
        Manager setting.

NOTE: the MinPasswordLength, MinPasswordAge, MaxPasswordAge, PasswordHistoryLength are all write-able on the Domain object.

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Click the file names below to download the files:

AdsX86.exe - NT X86 version

Adsalpha.exe - NT Alpha version

Ads95.exe - Windows 95 version

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

Microsoft used the most current virus detection software available on the date of posting to scan this file for viruses. Once posted, the file is housed on secure servers that prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.

MORE INFORMATION

To install this patch:

To extract the platform version of ads.exe and readme.txt run adsX86.exe in Windows NT, run ads95.exe in Windows 95, and run adsalpha.exe in Alpha NT.

Run Ads.exe to update your ADSI runtimes.

Restart your system when you are prompted by the install procedure.

Run an ADSI application and verify that you can use ADSI.

Additional query words: AdsX98 Adsalpha Ads95

Keywords : kbfile kbnokeyword kbAccCtrl kbAPI kbKernBase kbSecurity kbDSupport kbGrpKernBase
Issue type : kbinfo
Technology : kbOSWinNT kbOSWinSearch