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Version History
20 Febuary 1999 : v1.42
  • Global propery was not defaulting, now default to FALSE (i.e. use local groups)
30 November 1998 : v1.41
  • First release of ColdFusion support
  • Fixed RPC problem in isMember function
  • isMember will now check for indirect local group membership in both modes
15 November 1998 : v1.4
  • RPC errors are now retried up to a maximum of ten times
  • isMember when searching local groups, will now also check global groups on different domains (security permitting)
  • isMember will now auto strip domain names from user names where required (can always pass user name as domain\user)
  • Added use of the Free Threaded Marshaller (Improved ASP performance)
  • Added complete IErrorInfo support (VB will now show error messages as well as numbers)
  • Type Library renamed to something sensible (will effect any existing VB or C++ source code)
  • Added two new read only properties, "LocalDomainName" & "LocalServerName"
  • Minor performance tweeks
5 August 1998 : v1.32
  • GetDomainController, now takes an optional boolean to indicate whether to limit the retuned Domain Controller to a PDC.
  • StripDomain function now uses both \ & / as a separator
  • Fixed memory access error in GroupComment property
4 June 1998 : v1.3
  • SetUsersPrimaryGroup function added, allows control of the users primary group.
25 April 1998 : v1.2
  • GroupComment property added, to allow read / writes to the group comment field.
v1.1
  • NewGroup and DeleteGroup functions added to add and delete either local or global groups.
v1.0
  • IsMember will now recursively search for a user, such that if IsMember("User","Group",true) is called and it is searching a local group, any global groups contained within the local group will also be searched.
  • GetDomainController has been modified and should be better at finding PDC's not in the current domain.
  • Minor memory leak in IsMember function fixed.
Beta 2b2
  • TrimErrorCodes property added, set this to TRUE to trim the trailing CR & LF from the end of the error descriptions.
  • Re fixed problem with long lists of users or groups (have broke it in the last version).
  • Added the facility to retrieve the list of global or local groups on a server.
Beta 2b1
  • GetGroups / CheckGroups replaced by new function IsMember, IsMember allows either the list of groups for a user to be search ( more efficient ) or the user list for a group to be searched (useful for local groups on non domain controllers )
  • UserLogon function deleted ( more functional version in User component )
  • GetUsersFullName function deleted ( more functional version in User component )
  • New set of example scripts provided
Beta 1b2
  • Error reported when accessing large lists of users or groups
Beta 1b1
  • Full ActiveX errors reported rather than return codes.
  • Add a User to a group
  • Delete a user from a group
  • Retrieve a list of users in a particular group
  • Retrieve a list of groups a user is in.
Beta 3
  • Validate a NT username / password, this allows you to control access to your site without using the logon dialog boxes provided by the browser ( you write you own logon page ).
beta 2
  • Return the server type, i.e. stand alone, PDC, BDC
  • Return a Domain Controller name for a given domain
  • Return the user's full name

Last Updated : Saturday, February 20, 1999
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