How to Video: Using Active Directory Searching/Lookup in a SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Workflow (with Visual Studio 2008)

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This is the eighth in a series (the series is listed at the bottom) of "How To " Videos that I have created to show .NET Developers how to build document workflow in a SharePoint environment. 

In the How to Videos that I produced on "Building Approval Workflow's" and "Escalating Workflow's (for overdue tasks), I kept things simple (focusing on the Workflow) and did not do dynamic lookups of people/users against Active Directory (AD), choosing to "hard code" the users in the workflow.

In this example, I take one of those workflow's (Basic Approval Workflow) and show you how you can do a "Dynamic Lookup or Search" of Active Directory for information (The Manager of a user) using .NET Code (System.DirectoryServices).

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To see the Video and download the code: Click here

 

Checkout my other Active Directory (non-SharePoint Specific) with .NET Videos: (The same code works in SharePoint)

  • How to Add users to Active Directory with .NET (Click here to see it) 
  • How to Search Active Directory (used as the bases for this video): (Click here to see it) 
  • How to Search for/Add users to "Groups" in Active Directory with .NET: (Click here to see it)

Checkout my entire collection of SharePoint "How To" Videos:

Enabling (incoming/outgoing) email for SharePoint/MOSS 2007 servers (Click here to see it)

Extracting document details from within a workflow (Click here to see it)

Extracting email addresses and sending emails (Click here to see it)

Programmatically Creating a User Task within a workflow (Click here to see it)

Programmatically Escalating an Overdue Task with Visual Studio (Click here to see it)

Building an Approval Workflow with SharePoint/MOSS 2007 and VS 2008 (Click here to see it)

Building a Multilevel Approval Workflow with SharePoint/MOSS 2007 and VS2008 (Click here to see it) 

Using Active Directory Search/Lookups within SharePoint Workflow's to find users (Click here to see it)

 

~ Robert Shelton

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