| Directory Services |
The IADsOU interface is a dual interface that inherits from IADs. It is designed for representing and managing the organizational unit to which an account belongs. This interface is one of several that provide support for directory services to organize accounts by country/region, locality (state/city/region), organization (company), and organizational unit (department). Organization unit is managed by this interface, locality by the IADsLocality interface, and organization by IADsO.
When a directory service provides hierarchical groupings of directory entries by country/region, locality, organization, and organization unit, you can use this and the related interfaces to expand the directory tree accordingly. In this case, the IADsOU interface is implemented by an organization unit object that implements the IADsContainer interface as well.
The IADsOU interface inherits the methods of the standard COM interfaces:
In addition, IADsOU defines the following methods.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| get_Description | Gets and sets the description of the organizational unit. |
| put_Description | Gets and sets the description of the organizational unit. |
| get_LocalityName | Gets and sets the physical location of the unit. |
| put_LocalityName | Gets and sets the physical location of the unit. |
| get_PostalAddress | Gets and sets the post office address of the unit. |
| put_PostalAddress | Gets and sets the post office address of the unit. |
| get_TelephoneNumber | Gets and sets the telephone number of the unit. |
| put_TelephoneNumber | Gets and sets the telephone number of the unit. |
| get_FaxNumber | Gets and sets the fax number of the unit. |
| put_FaxNumber | Gets and sets the fax number of the unit. |
| get_SeeAlso | Gets and sets the other information relevant to the unit. |
| put_SeeAlso | Gets and sets the other information relevant to the unit. |
| get_BusinessCategory | Gets and sets the category of general business functions of the unit. |
| put_BusinessCategory | Gets and sets the category of general business functions of the unit. |
The IADsOU interface defines the following properties. The preceding table includes access methods for these properties.
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| BusinessCategory | Gets and sets the category of general business functions of the unit. |
| Description | Gets and sets the description of the organizational unit. |
| FaxNumber | Gets and sets the fax number of the unit. |
| LocalityName | Gets and sets the physical location of the unit. |
| PostalAddress | Gets and sets the post office address of the unit. |
| SeeAlso | Gets and sets the other information relevant to the unit. |
| TelephoneNumber | Gets and sets the telephone number of the unit. |
Client: Included in Windows XP and
Windows 2000 Professional.
Server: Included in Windows Server 2003 and
Windows 2000 Server.
Redistributable: Requires Active Directory Client Extension
on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a and Windows 95/98/Me.
Header: Declared in Iads.h.