I’ve shied away from psoting during the last few weeks. The main reason is that I just haven’t progressed with the LDAP issues that beset me a couple of weeks back.<\/p>\n
We’ve tried lots of port redirection and the like, but in the end we just can’t seem to force the remote workers laptops to send LDAP requests down the VPN.<\/p>\n
Well, i focussed on something else for a week and attended my C# programming course with Learning tree, and on the last day of the Course, I had another Epiphany!… Web Services..<\/p>\n
Basically, we take the LDAP lookups out of the spreadsheet, and move the whole shooting match, lock stock and 2 smoking barrels to the Web Server.<\/p>\n
I’ve spent this morning coding the new web service and it’s now live on the SharePoint server housed within the same AppPool as the MOSS web services.<\/p>\n
It’s function, well for now at least, all it does is offer a method called IsMemberOf(userName,groupName) and expects just a Username and a Groupname. It compares one with membership of the other and returns True or False accordingly..<\/p>\n
Now I just have to consume the service within Excel 2003.. I’m downloading the web Services toolkit as we speak and I’ll update you soon…<\/p>\n
As ever.. watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve shied away from psoting during the last few weeks. The main reason is that I just haven’t progressed with the LDAP issues that beset me a couple of weeks back. We’ve tried lots of port redirection and the like, but in the end we just can’t seem to force the remote workers laptops to … <\/p>\n