Can't programatically create a Domain group

27 Apr 2005 1:55 PM

Buddy Robbins

Folks,
I have a windows 2k3 server (Euclid) that belongs to a w2k active directory
(BudTest is the server, budtest.com is the domain).
The service I wrote in VB.Net to run on Euclid has to create new groups on
budtest.com.

I copied the code from the microsoft web site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adam/adam/creating_groups.asp
The only change I made was to the LDAP address. I was able to do
Children.Find() and get a
response, so I'm pretty sure my LDAP address is right.

When I run it, when the code reaches the objGroup.CommitChanges line, it
throws an exception.
With a little digging, I got "The server is unwilling to process the
request."

My service runs under a domain account. I delegated control of the
appropriat OU to the account, and I even tried adding the account to the
domain administrators. Still nothing.

After google-ing the problem, it seems that the error message is a generic
response from the AD.

I don't suppose anyone can tell me what could be going on that the
off-the-shelf solution would throw errors?

Thanks in advance

Buddy Robbins

27 Apr 2005 5:06 PM

Joe Kaplan (MVP - ADSI)

Please don't multi-post. I answered your question in a different newsgroup.

Joe K.

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"Buddy Robbins" <BuddysSpam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Folks,
> I have a windows 2k3 server (Euclid) that belongs to a w2k active
> directory (BudTest is the server, budtest.com is the domain).
> The service I wrote in VB.Net to run on Euclid has to create new groups
> on budtest.com.
>
> I copied the code from the microsoft web site:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adam/adam/creating_groups.asp
> The only change I made was to the LDAP address. I was able to do
> Children.Find() and get a
> response, so I'm pretty sure my LDAP address is right.
>
> When I run it, when the code reaches the objGroup.CommitChanges line, it
> throws an exception.
> With a little digging, I got "The server is unwilling to process the
> request."
>
> My service runs under a domain account. I delegated control of the
> appropriat OU to the account, and I even tried adding the account to the
> domain administrators. Still nothing.
>
> After google-ing the problem, it seems that the error message is a generic
> response from the AD.
>
> I don't suppose anyone can tell me what could be going on that the
> off-the-shelf solution would throw errors?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Buddy Robbins
>
>
>