Active Directory and Front Page Connection?

[gina-b]

My basic question is regarding how to create a connection between Active
Directory and FrontPage.

I'm trying to create a phone list/team roster/employee directory for our
company's intranet site. I want this list to be automatically updated from
Active Directory, so that any changes in Active Directory (department change,
phone number change, termination, etc) will be reflected in this 'team
roster'. Thus far I've been completely unsuccessful in accomplishing this.

One way I think it might be possible to create an automatically-updating
team roster is to create a webpart that pulls the appropriate data from
Active Directory and then displays it in a list. I'm running Sharepoint
Portal Server 2003 and Frontpage 2003 -- I'm thinking that if I add a
database connection to Active Directory in the Data Source Catalog in
Frontpage, I might be able to create such a webpart.

The way I've been trying to do this is by opening Frontpage, clicking
"Data>Insert Data View", then in the Data Source Catalog/Select A Data
Source, under Database Connections, selecting "Add to Catalog". I run into
trouble when I try to "Configure Database Connection", as I can't get an
custom OLEDB connection string to work at all -- I only receive errors such
as "Server Error: An error occurred..." etc. Do you know how to create a
connection between Active Directory and Frontpage? Or, is this even possible?

Here are a couple of the connection strings I’ve tried to no avail:

Provider=ADSDSOObject;User
ID=myID;Password=myPassword;<LDAP://DC="private,DC=myCompany,DC=com">;(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(sn=*)))); subtree;

and also

Provider=ADSDSOObject;User ID=myID;Password=myPassword;<LDAP://servername/>;

THANKS so much for your help.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

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| My basic question is regarding how to create a connection between Active
| Directory and FrontPage.
|
| I'm trying to create a phone list/team roster/employee directory for our
| company's intranet site. I want this list to be automatically updated from
| Active Directory, so that any changes in Active Directory (department change,
| phone number change, termination, etc) will be reflected in this 'team
| roster'. Thus far I've been completely unsuccessful in accomplishing this.
|
| One way I think it might be possible to create an automatically-updating
| team roster is to create a webpart that pulls the appropriate data from
| Active Directory and then displays it in a list. I'm running Sharepoint
| Portal Server 2003 and Frontpage 2003 -- I'm thinking that if I add a
| database connection to Active Directory in the Data Source Catalog in
| Frontpage, I might be able to create such a webpart.
|
| The way I've been trying to do this is by opening Frontpage, clicking
| "Data>Insert Data View", then in the Data Source Catalog/Select A Data
| Source, under Database Connections, selecting "Add to Catalog". I run into
| trouble when I try to "Configure Database Connection", as I can't get an
| custom OLEDB connection string to work at all -- I only receive errors such
| as "Server Error: An error occurred..." etc. Do you know how to create a
| connection between Active Directory and Frontpage? Or, is this even possible?
|
| Here are a couple of the connection strings I’ve tried to no avail:
|
| Provider=ADSDSOObject;User
| ID=myID;Password=myPassword;<LDAP://DC="private,DC=myCompany,DC=com">;(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(sn=*))));
subtree;
|
| and also
|
| Provider=ADSDSOObject;User ID=myID;Password=myPassword;<LDAP://servername/>;
|
| THANKS so much for your help.