Automatically adding users to NAV

Adding users to groups in Active Directory and Windows Groups is not enough to give access to NAV. Here we will show a way to automatically add a user to NAV Windows Logins when they are added to a specific group.

Getting ready

You will need to create the .NET project described in the Checking Active Directory groups section of the Checking for user-assigned roles recipe in this chapter.

How to do it...

1. Add the following functions to your .NET class:

   public string RetrieveSID(string user, string domain)
   {
   string connectionPrefix = "LDAP://" + domain;
   byte[] userSID;
   DirectorySearcher ADSearcher = new DirectorySearcher(new DirectoryEntry(connectionPrefix));
   ADSearcher.Filter = @"(&(objectClass=user) (cn=" + user + "))";
   SearchResult result = ADSearcher.FindOne();
   if (result == null)
   {
   throw new NullReferenceException
   ("Could not find " + user + " in the " + domain + " domain");
   }
   DirectoryEntry ADUser = result.GetDirectoryEntry();
   ADUser = new DirectoryEntry...