DirectorySearcher::SearchRoot Property
Gets or sets a value indicating the node in the Active Directory Domain Services hierarchy where the search starts.
Assembly: System.DirectoryServices (in System.DirectoryServices.dll)
[DSDescriptionAttribute(L"DSSearchRoot")] public: property DirectoryEntry^ SearchRoot { DirectoryEntry^ get (); void set (DirectoryEntry^ value); }
Property Value
Type: System.DirectoryServices::DirectoryEntryThe DirectoryEntry object in the Active Directory Domain Services hierarchy where the search starts. The default is a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).
If SearchRoot is a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic), the search root is set to the root of the domain that your server is currently using.
There are several ways to search in the global catalog:
Enumerate the global catalog and pick the first child.
Specify the server name. Use the DsGetDcName function to find the global catalog. For more information on the DsGetDcName function, see the topic "DsGetDcName" in the MSDN Library at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library.
Get the RootDSE of the global catalog and ask for "rootNamingContext".
Use the global catalog, specifying a search path as if using LDAP. For example, "GC://OU=..., DC=..., DC=...".
The following C# code shows how to enumerate the global catalog and pick the first child.
DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("GC://forestname"); IEnumerator ie = entry.Children.GetEnumerator(); ie.MoveNext(); entry = (DirectoryEntry)ie.Current; DirectorySearcher search = new DirectorySearcher(entry);
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
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