7.6.1.3 Establishing an ADConnection

This task establishes a TCP connection to an Active Directory server specified by the elements of an input ADConnection instance.

The parameters for this task are as follows:

Name

Type

Description

Optional

TaskInputADConnection

ADCONNECTION_HANDLE

An ADCONNECTION_HANDLE ([MS-DTYP] section 2.2.2) that refers to an initialized ADConnection for which a TCP connection to the directory server will be established.

No

The task returns the following results to the caller:

Name

Type

Description

TaskReturnStatus

Boolean

Returns TRUE if a TCP connection was successfully established and FALSE otherwise.

The task performs the following actions:

  1. Let adConnection be the ADConnection instance in ADCList referred to by TaskInputADConnection.

  2. Invoke the Connecting to a Directory Server (section 7.6.2.2) task, passing adConnection.primaryConnection as the TaskInputConnectionInfo parameter. The return value of the invocation is returned to the caller as TaskReturnStatus.