Question

So, I’m kind of stuck here…

I’m writing a program that should be able to list all users in the local administrator group on a MS Windows Server 2008 R2.

The problem here is that I’m only allowed to use .NET 2.0 – so I’m not able to use the GroupPrincipal Class… Which would have made this a really easy task.

Any pointers would be appriciated!

Cheers!

Answer 1

Jeez!

Don’t know what I was thinking really – it’s so simple!

All creds to Masoud Tabatabaei – found the following codesnippet on:
http://csharptuning.blogspot.se/2007/09/how-to-get-list-of-windows-user-in-c.html

DirectoryEntry localMachine = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" + Environment.MachineName);
DirectoryEntry admGroup = localMachine.Children.Find("administrators","group");
object members = admGroup.Invoke("members", null);
foreach (object groupMember in (IEnumerable)members)
{
    DirectoryEntry member = new DirectoryEntry(groupMember);
    lstUsers.Items.Add(member.Name);
}