Active Directory, Second Edition

Searching with DirectorySearcher

We’ve shown how easy it is to read individual objects from Active Directory with the DirectoryEntry class, so let’s now look at how to search Active Directory with the DirectorySearcher class. The DirectorySearcher class works like many other LDAP-based search APIs. Table 28-4 contains all of the DirectorySearcher properties.

Table 28-4. DirectorySearcher properties

Property name	Description
CacheResults	Gets or sets the flag that determines whether results are cached on the client.
ClientTimeout	Gets or sets the time period the client is willing to wait for the server to answer the search.
Filter	Gets or sets the search filter string.
PageSize	Gets or sets the page size for paged searching.
PropertiesToLoad	Gets or sets the attributes to return from a search.
PropertyNamesOnly	Gets or sets the flag indicating to only return attribute names from a search.
ReferralChasing	Gets or sets whether referrals are chased.
SearchRoot	Gets or sets the base from which the search should start.
SearchScope	Gets or sets the scope of the search.
ServerPageTimeLimit	Gets or sets the time the server will wait for an individual page to return from a search.
ServerTimeLimit	Gets or sets the time the server will wait for a search to complete.
SizeLimit	Gets or sets the maximum number of objects that can be returned by a search.
Sort	Gets or sets the attribute that is used when returning sorted search results.

Many of the properties, such as ...