Evaluating Group Membership
The
IADsGroup::IsMember
method takes one argument, the
DN of the object to check, just as Add
and
Remove
do. It returns a Boolean, i.e., true or
false. That allows you to use it in an If . . . Then
statement like this:
Set objGroup = GetObject("LDAP://cn=Managers,ou=Sales," _ & "dc=mycorp,dc=com") If objGroup.IsMember("LDAP://cn=Vicky Launders,ou=Sales," _ & "dc=mycorp,dc=com") Then WScript.Echo "Is a Member!" Else WScript.Echo "Is NOT a Member!" End If
This should seem fairly straightforward after the examples we’ve already gone through. Two of the lines in the previous code snippet are too long to fit on the page, so the VBScript underscore (_) character was used again to tell VBScript that it should treat the current line as continuous with the next line. However, when you use the underscore to separate long strings, you must enclose both strings in quotation marks and then use the ampersand character (&) to concatenate two strings together.
To get a list of members in a group, the
IADsGroup::Members
method can be used. The
IADsGroup::Members
function is different from the
other IADsGroup
methods we have shown so far,
since it returns a pointer to an IADsMembers
object. Table 21-5 shows the two methods
IADsMembers
support.
Table 21-5. The IADsMembers interface
IADsMembers methods |
Action |
---|---|
Count |
The number of items in the container. If there is a filter set, only the number of items that match the filter are returned. |
Filter |
A filter, consisting of ... |
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