Hi,
Couple questions regarding SQL Server Active Directory Helper service:
a)What is its purpose?
b)Where can I get more detailed information about this service and
SQL Server 2005 services in general?
c)How can the following error during start up phase of this service
be avoided?
Error Message:
'0' is an invalid number of start up parameters. This service takes two start up parameters.
FYI: SQL Server 2005 is run on Windows XP professional.
On a fairly new install of SQL 2005 64-bit, upon bootup the Active Directory Helper Serivice is aborting with the error 3221225572 (0XC0000064). When an attempt is made to start the service manually the following error appears: "Windows could not start teh SQL Server Active Directory Helper on Local Computer. For more infromation, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to the service-specific error code - 1073741724."
The service is strating up under the network services account, which I am suspicous may be a problem. Currently the SQL server is running under SQL 2005 SP2 with no post service pack hotfixes. Do you have any advice on how to get the service to launch without errors?
I just installed a copy of sql2005 express, and need to use windows authentication. the ad helper service bombs on startup, any helpfull suggestions would be appreciated. thanks
I have a ASP.Net Project to read active directory usernames.
Its working fine when running thru asp development server.
But while running thru IIS Server. It displays the following error
"An exception of type 'System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException' occurred in System.DirectoryServices.dll but was not handled in user codeAdditional information: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password."
This is my Code :
Public Function readADSusers() Dim enTry As DirectoryEntry = New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://spiretek.local") Dim mySearcher As DirectorySearcher = New DirectorySearcher(enTry) mySearcher.Filter = ("(objectClass=user)") Dim resEnt As SearchResult For Each resEnt In mySearcher.FindAll() Select Case myKey Case "samaccountname" TextBox1.Text += myResultPropColl(myKey)(0) End Select Next End Function
Has anyone used this successfully from an OLEDB source component, or even from the Execute SQL Task? I've seen some examples of using a script component, but nothing that uses it through a connection manager.
I have recently upgraded my the server that runs SQL Server to an Active Directory Domain Controler. Now I can't connect to the SQL Server from ASP.NET Applications when the application is not located on the local machine. The error message I get is SQL Server does not exist or access is denied. I have no problems connecting with QueryAnalyer and Enterprise Manager from my workstation. I have added the Sql Server to the directory via the "Active Directory"-tab in the Property window for my Sql Server Registration i Enterprise Manager. If I copy a directory from the wwwroot on my workstation to the server the application has no problem to connect so the connectionstring seams to work fine.
I look for and try to get data from Active Directory to MSSQL Server, but have same error:
Msg 7321, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 An error occurred while preparing the query "SELECT name FROM 'LDAP://office.experter.group' WHERE objectCategory = 'Person' AND objectClass = 'user'" for execution against OLE DB provider "ADsDSOObject" for linked server "ADSI".
for the code:
select * from openquery ( ADSI,'SELECT name FROM ''LDAP://office.experter.group'' WHERE objectCategory = ''Person'' AND objectClass = ''user''' )
Sometimes a user name will change in Active Directory and I have to change the name in SQL Server as well. So what I do is first delete the old user name from SQL Server's logins. However I wont be able to see the new user name in SQL Server to add it as a legit user until I roboot the server. Is there somekind of code I can execute to resynchronize with Active Directory again?
I want to create a view in SQL populated with users from our Active Directory. I have learnt that this can be done using linked server. I have tried using the following:
sp_addlinkedserver 'ADSI', 'Active Directory Services 2.5', 'ADSDSOObject', 'adsdatasource' go
SELECT * FROM OpenQuery( ADSI, 'SELECT * FROM "LDAP://194.22.1.18/DC=lok,DC=net"')
I keep getting this error no matter what I try: An error occurred while preparing a query for execution against OLE DB provider 'ADSDSOObject'. OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'ADSDSOObject' ICommandPrepare::Prepare returned 0x80040e14].
I was wondering how exactly one can search the Active Directory with SQL Server 2000. There is all kind of stuff on the Internet about how to connect them and how useful it is to connect them together - plus how you can use Active Directory to query SQL Server, but I`ve never encountered any article where they explain how SQL Server can search the Active Directory. I`m thinking about how one has their user-database in Active Directory with all users in groups, but only uses groups in SQL Server. How exactly can SQL Server figure out how a user belongs to a group? Does Active Directory tell SQL Server about that when the user tries to access something from SQL Server, or does SQL Server already knows which group is accessing it as soon as the user authenticates in Active Directory?
I am new to Microsoft Technologies, can any one say how to connect/ retrieve data's from Active Directory through SQL SERVER from scratch. I need with some sample codes.....
Hello All,I have a linked ADSI Server to our company Active Directory andeverything is fine. I'm running queries and such using LDAP. BUT howcan I aquire a list of attributes for the classes and categories. Suchas if i wanted to see a user's telephone number and email address foruse in a corporate database? Is this possible?Thanks
Does anyone know of any good references (books or web sites) that provide examples of querying AD from SQL Server? I have the database link setup and have done two very simple queries against AD but I would like to see more in-depth examples.
I have a SQL 2008 running on a server that is not part of an Active Directory Domain. I would like to add the server to Active Directory. How will this impact SQL in terms of the SQL users, Windows Authentication, and permissions?
We have a department and want to grant them access to various databases on a sql server 2000 instance. Can we create an AD group for these users and just add the group as a login to SQL Server? Or do we have to create a db user for each member of the group and map the logins one by one?
Hello --I'm trying to get SQL Server 2000 on a Windows 2000 Server to be ableto query an Active Directory. We've got two domain servers one Win2000and one Win2003. However, I'm having problems:I've run the following query to setup the linked server:sp_addlinkedserver 'ADSI', 'Active Directory Service Interfaces','ADSDSOObject', 'adsdatasource'Using Enterprise Manager I've changed the login details for the ADSIlinked server to:Be made using the following security context:Username: MyDomainAdministratorPassword: ****I've then tried to run the following query in Query Analyzer:SELECT * FROMOpenQuery(ADSI,'<LDAP://CN=Users,DC=MyDomain,DC=com>;(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User));name,ad spath')But get the following error message:Could not execute query against OLE DB provider 'ADSDSOObject'.Does anyone have any ideas on what this message means or how to getthis working?Thanks--James Allanjames [at] allan-home.co.uk
We have just installed a SQL Server 2000 (SP 3A) onto a computer thathas Windows-2003 Server on it. Now, we cannot get access to thatdatabase server from other computers. Seem like this may be an issuewith Active Directory.Our network consists of Windows-2000 Servers (SP 4) and Windows-2000workstations and Windows-XP workstations. We also have SQL Server 2000(SP2) in three Windows-2000 servers. All work fine. Recently, we get anew server that has already had Windows-2003 Server pre-installed.After we have installed SQL Server 2000 (SP 3A) on the new server, wefind that we cannot get access to that new database server from othercomputers.I have tried connecting to that new database server using QueryAnalyzer (using both the sa account and Windows Authentication), and Iget this error message:Unable to connect to server NEWDBSRV:Server: Msg 17, Level 16, State 1[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does notexist or access denied.I have tried connecting to that new database server using ISQL (usingboth the sa account and Windows Authentication), and I get this errormessage:DB-Library: Unable to connect: SQL Server is unavailable or does notexist.Unable to connect: SQL Server does not exist or network accessdenied.Net-Library error 53: ConnectionOpen (Connect()).I have also tried to register the new database server using EnterpriseManager (again, using both the sa account and Windows Authentication),and I get this error message:NEWDBSRV - SQL Server does not exist or access denied.ConnectionOpen(Connect())The only way that I can get access to the new database server is toopen Enterprise Manager directly on the new server.I have compared the properties of the new database server and those ofthe other existing database servers. The only differences are:-Other database servers are running Windows-2000. The new databaseserver is running Windows-2003.-The new database server is missing the "Active Directory" page-tagwhen I check its properties using Enterprise Manager. We use ActiveDirectory in our network, and the Active Directory is being run from aWindows-2000 server (that is currently also a database server).According to our network administrator, he has already put the newserver into our Active Directory. He doesn't know why it is missingthe Active Directory page-tag. He believes this has something to dowith its having Windows-2003 that is different from other servers(that have Windows-2000).Thanks in advance for any info.Jay Chan
I mapped a login created with an Active Directory Group on server A to a login on server B through a linked server on server A and received a null login error when attempting to connect.
I changed the Active Directory Group login to an individual active directory login and the connection worked fine.
I saw someone post online somewhere that Active Directory Groups don't work with linked server by design--but I wanted to get confirmation on this. Can anyone confirm this, particularly someone from Microsoft?
I need to add one of our servers to active directory. I found some documents on SQL 2000 but no good document on SQL 2005. Can you please guide me to the documentation for this? Thanks
We have a custom application that connects remotely to a SQL Server 2000 (SP2) database. We would like our application to validate a user's login against Active Directory.
So far I have been able to get a lookup working, but I can not find documentation on how to validate the password from within SQL Server. I found a lot of notes on using ASP.NET objects, or VB, C#, etc, but for this solution it must be done entirely in SQL. It would also be nice if this were SQL Server 2005; we could just embed the C# code and call it as a SQL stored proc, but unfortunately we are left with the constraint that we cannot upgrade this DB at this time.
Linked server 'ADSI' is set up with the sp_addlinkedserver command:
Two table functions in our test DB (trying to test both ways I've found in docs):
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[GetAuthenticatedUserViaLDAP] ( -- Add the parameters for the function here @userId nvarchar(50), @password nvarchar(50) ) RETURNS TABLE AS RETURN ( -- Add the SELECT statement with parameter references here SELECT [SAMAccountName], CN [Name], SN [Last Name], ST State FROM OPENQUERY( ADSI, '<LDAP://DC=company,DC=com>;((objectClass=user));SAMAccountName,cn,sn,st') WHERE [SAMAccountName] = @userId )
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[GetAuthenticatedUser] ( -- Add the parameters for the function here @userId nvarchar(50), @password nvarchar(50) ) RETURNS TABLE AS RETURN ( -- Add the SELECT statement with parameter references here SELECT [SAMAccountName], [Name], SN [Last Name], ST State FROM OPENQUERY( ADSI, 'SELECT SAMAccountName, Name, SN, ST FROM ''LDAP://bdsserver1/ CN=users,DC=company,DC=com'' WHERE objectCategory = ''Person'' AND objectClass = ''user'' ') WHERE [SAMAccountName] = @userId )
So calling either of these table functions from our custom application gives the same result:
select * from dbo.GetAuthenticatedUser('astonaker','abc') OR select * from dbo.GetAuthenticatedUserViaLDAP('astonaker','abc')
ResultSet:
'astonaker', 'Anthony', 'Stonaker' 'NULL'
So I can at least tell if a given user exists or not, but I have no visibility into whether the password they entered into our application is valid in LDAP.
I don't want to pass unencrypted passwords through the network, but then I don't know how to encrypt/compare these passwords without using the .NET Connection or DirectoryEntry, etc objects.
Hi all! I know I might sound stupid, but I have this problem. I have developed my database on my laptop which does not use Active directory. Lets say I access the database with: SPIDERMANDB1 on SQL server, where the name of my laptop is SPIDERMAN, and the database is DB1. Now, I create an SQL script from sql server and make the necessary changes, like changing the computer name to say, SUPERMAN where my deployment server's name is SUPERMAN. But when I run the SQL script on the SUPERMAN server, it gives me an error like: "User or role SUPERMANDB1 does not exist in this database". I have deployed databases in this way on servers without Acive directory, so I'm sure its not a mistake on my side. So how am I supposed to go around this active directory thingi! Please help me out! I'm counting on u guys!
hi, I am trying to run a query analyzer via query against ad. Below is the error I am getting. How to extract the directReports attribute values from windows 2003 active directory
SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY( ADSI, 'SELECT directReports FROM ''LDAP://192.168.1.24/dc=xxx,dc=com'' WHERE objectCategory = ''Person'' AND objectClass = ''user'' order by name')
Err: Server: Msg 7346, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Could not get the data of the row from the OLE DB provider 'ADsDSOObject'. Could not convert the data value due to reasons other than sign mismatch or overflow.
We're trying to figure out whether it's possible to link AD objects to SQL tables. For example, if we have a table of Users and a table of Companies, we'd like to enter the users into Active Directory, create the Companies as either OU's or Security Groups, then have those entities magically appear in the corresponding SQL Server tables. Is that possible? Thanks in advance.
My question is I have a SQL Server running on Web Server which is a member of a 2000 Active Directory, I only grant access to the database via Global Groups from the Active Directory. When I log onto the database via Windows Authentication the actual user shows up in the master.dbo.sysprocesses table, I can tell what database that process is going to but not how that user is being translated to the Global Group that was actually given access. I need the actual database user name which is the Global Group name that had permissions granted via user defined database roles so that I can do some pre-processing in an ASP.NET application so that I know what parts of a form are updatable or not.
I'm trying to extract all the users and their membership to groups, and the membership of groups to groups from active directory though a link to server.
I can get the users. I can get the groups.... individually.
I can't get the info of what user is a member of or who are members of a group.
Anyone know how to do this or am I going to have to right a vb app? (Anyone already got the code...)
I want to load this data into tables for reporting in my Data Warehouse.
I am trying to setup querying Active directory from sql for the first time.
We are running on windows server 2012 and using sql 11.0.2100.60. Have tried the following
sql is on sever dev AD is on sever DO
EXEC sp_addlinkedserver 'ADSI', 'Active Directory Services 2.5', 'ADSDSOObject', 'adsdatasource' GO
[Code] ....
I get the following error when I try and query
Msg 7321, Level 16, State 2, Line 2 An error occurred while preparing the query "SELECT name FROM 'LDAP:// xxxx.internal' WHERE objectCategory='Person' AND objectClass = 'contact'" for execution against OLE DB provider "ADSDSOObject" for linked server "ADSI".
