Ok, this is complicated to explain.

Say, for example, that you want to have a link on a website, that a user can click on, to gain access to their Home Directory (which is retrieved from the Active Directory field).

Ok, kind of a specific need, I know.

What do you need to do this:

1. Create a linked server connection, called ADSI, with the following :

sp_addlinkedserver ‘ADSI’, ‘Active Directory Service Interfaces’, ‘ADSDSOObject’, ‘adsdatasource’

2. Create a website in IIS, ensure that authentication is Windows Integrated, and not Anonymous.

3. Create an ASPX page, and give it a FormView (or data enabled tool).

4. Give it a SQL Server Data source, with a query similar to the one below:

SELECT ‘file:’+REPLACE(homeDirectory,’\’,’/’)
FROM OpenQuery( ADSI,’LDAP://AD_DETAILS;
(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=user));
homeDirectory, sAMAccountName, distinguishedName’)
where sAMAccountName in (select SUBSTRING ( SYSTEM_USER , CHARINDEX(‘\’,SYSTEM_USER)+1, len(SYSTEM_USER)-CHARINDEX(‘\’,SYSTEM_USER)) )

This query will return the home directory, from ADSI Linked Server, for the current user.

5. All you then need to do is bind the returned field to a button. You can do this with the following:

<asp:HyperLink ID=”HyperLink1″ runat=”server” NavigateUrl=’<%# Bind(“homeDirectory”) %>‘> mylink is here</asp:HyperLink>

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