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Directory Services have gained a lot of traction over the last few years. Directories are repositories of information and can be utilized in many different ways.

This application does one simple task. On any network where Microsoft Active Directory is used it will list all computers on the network. I faced this problem when I wanted to document all of the computers on the network using WMI .

Working on my latest project required quite a degree of development against the Active Directory.

The attached source code shows you how to list an active directory users in .NET using C#.

When storing user information, developers can have two choices to choose from - Active directory and a relational database. This article sheds lights on usefulness of each of these and when to use one over the other and vice versa.