iPhone and Windows Active Directory

Is it posable to make an app that can connect to a Windows Active Directory Server and do something like create a new user account or disable an existing account or retrieve a status flag...? help me please...!

W开发者_运维技巧hat i actually want is that, my windows server has all the web services and database which is capable to run a web application. now i am about to design an iphone version of the same web app. the users information are stored in an Active Directory. is there exist a direct connection between the iphone and the AD??? do i need to write any other web service particular for the iphone version??? what all things i need to setup for that.???

Thanks,

Shibin

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Maybe you can set up a web service on AD server to handle AD related operations.

like this way: [native AD operate code]<---->[web service]<------> iPhone

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Our Smash! User Manager app does this and is available for both IOS and Android for FREE.

APPLE: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smash-user-manager/id407785473?mt=8

ANDROID: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.weston.android.usermanagerforwindows

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ADAssist at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/active-directory-assist/id528953910?mt=8

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Perhaps you might look into porting Samba to a legitimate iPhone app.

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There are certainly ways to do this. There are a few applications on the App Store that do this now. (Several mentioned here, although my favorite "AD HelpDesk" hasn't gotten a plug yet).

Probably the easiest way to go about it would be to use ADWS to allow web service access to the DC. This of course requires a 2008 R2 DC.

If you don't do that you will have to use native protocols such as LDAP to communicate with the DC. You can incorporate openLDAP source code into your iPhone app, and do LDAP queries against the DC directly.