The Put Method

The IADs::Put method saves the value for a property for an Active Directory object by name into the property cache.Use IADs::PutEx to save multi-valued properties to the property cache, or to remove a property from an object. These values are not persisted to the underlying directory service until IADs::SetInfo is called.

Dim Namespace As IADsOpenDSObject
Dim User As IADsUser
Dim NewName As Variant
Dim sUserName As String
Dim sPassword As String

On Error GoTo CleanUp
 
Set Namespace = GetObject("LDAP:")

' Insert code to safely get the username and password
 
Set User = Namespace.OpenDSObject("LDAP://MyMachine/CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=MyDomain,DC=Fabrikam,DC=COM", sUserName, sPassword, ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION)
 
NewName = InputBox("Enter a new name:")
 
' Set using IADs::PutMethod
User.Put "FullName", NewName
User.SetInfo

Exit Sub

CleanUp:
	Set IADsOpenDSObject = Nothing
	Set IADsUser = Nothing

End Sub

The following code example shows how to use IADs::Put with a single value.

Dim x As IADs
Dim sUserName As String
Dim sFull As String

On Error GoTo CleanUp

sUserName = InputBox("Enter your username:")
 
Set x = GetObject("LDAP://CN="& sUserName &",CN=Users,DC=Fabrikam, DC=Com") 

sFull = InputBox ("Enter your full name:")
x.Put "name", sFull
 
' Commit to the directory.
x.SetInfo

Exit Sub

CleanUp:
	MsgBox ("An error has occurred. " & Err.Description)
	Set x = Nothing

The following code example shows how to use IADs::Put with multiple values.

Dim x As IADs
Dim sFirst As String
Dim sLast As String
Dim sUsername As String

On Error GoTo CleanUp

sUsername = InputBox("Username:")
 
Set x = GetObject("LDAP://CN=" & sUsername & ", CN=Users,DC=Fabrikam, DC=Com")

sFirst = InputBox("Enter your first name:")
sLast = InputBox("Enter your last name:")
 
x.Put "givenName", sFirst
x.Put "sn", sLast
 
'Commit to the directory
x.SetInfo

Exit Sub

CleanUp:
	MsgBox ("An error has occurred. " & Err.Description)
	Set x = Nothing