A quirk of Active Directory is that Organizational Units use an OU property rather than a CN property to define their place in the directory structure. In createobject messages you need to use CN= to create most objects. However, to allow you to create OUs we had to allow you to specify this with OU=MyNewOU.
What is ActiveADAPTER?
ActiveADAPTER is a set of BizTalk adapters for working with Active Directory from BizTalk Server. We offer you:
- A BizTalk Send Adapter that you can use to:
- Create, move and delete Active Directory objects
- Change object properties such as email addresses, office locations, home folder locations...
- Set user passwords and add objects to security groups
- A BizTalk Receive Adapter that you can use to query Active Directory and receive the results in an XML message into BizTalk Server
- The input and output schemas for all ActiveADAPTER operations
- Sample orchestrations and example XML input
- Complete documentation
Is there a WCF version of ActiveADAPTER?
Yes. ActiveADAPTER is available as a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. So with or without BizTalk Server, you can query and update Active Directory with ActiveADAPTER
ActiveADAPTER WCF exposes essentially the same functionality as our Active Directory Send and Receive Adapters.
ActiveADAPTER WCF services can be consumed by BizTalk Server, but BizTalk Server is not required.
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Is the ability to create Solicit-Response ports that query Active Directory on demand part of the Receive Adapter or the Send Adapter?
Both. The query is sent out by the send adapter. The actual querying is done by components of the receive adapter. Therefore, to be licensed to create Solicit-Response send ports, you need to be licensed for both the ActiveADAPTER send and receive adapters.