Create a new Group object - vbscript sample

Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) is a set of COM (Common Object Model) programming Interfaces. Like ODBC, ADSI provides common access to directories by adding a provider for each directory protocol type.

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On this site, you can find many ADSI samples.

The Group ADSI class can be used in ActiveXperts Network Monitor to monitor your servers.

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Group

Example(s)

ADS_GROUP_TYPE_GLOBAL_GROUP = &h2
ADS_GROUP_TYPE_LOCAL_GROUP = &h4
ADS_GROUP_TYPE_UNIVERSAL_GROUP = &h8
ADS_GROUP_TYPE_SECURITY_ENABLED = &h80000000

strContainer = ""
strName = "EzAdGroup"

'***********************************************
'*         Connect to a container              *
'***********************************************
Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://rootDSE")
If strContainer = "" Then
  Set objContainer = GetObject("LDAP://" & _
    objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext"))
Else
  Set objContainer = GetObject("LDAP://" & strContainer & "," & _
    objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext"))
End If
'***********************************************
'*       End connect to a container            *
'***********************************************

Set objGroup = objContainer.Create("group", "cn=" & strName)
objGroup.Put "sAMAccountName", strName
objGroup.Put "groupType", ADS_GROUP_TYPE_GLOBAL_GROUP Or _
  ADS_GROUP_TYPE_SECURITY_ENABLED
objGroup.SetInfo