Active Directory Application Settings

[Thrakazog]

Hi All,

We have a need to use Active Directory to store settings for our program on the client’s site. I've run across several MS documents describing how to read these values in code. However, I have yet to find a document explaining how to create them in code. Does anyone have any information on how to do this?

So far I’ve been exploring the DirectoryEntry object in .Net. With it I can setup a path on where to put the data. As far as I can tell the data we need to put in should go in the Container object of the DirectoryEntry. The Container object is read-only so I have no way to set it or put my data in.

Anyone have any answers/suggestions?

 

[ThatRickGuy]

Just out of curiocity, why do you need to store info in AD?

-Rick

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[Thrakazog]

We're looking to use it for storing site wide application settings. Current versions, server names, etc. We've tried using common network paths and such. Once one of those machines dies we're stuck changing config files on all the clients to point them somewhere else. AD seems like it should be a fairly safe common place to store the data. AD could still go down, but without AD our clients can't work anyway.