IADsOU Property Methods

The property methods of the IADsOU interface get or set the properties listed in the following table. For more information, see Interface Property Methods.

Properties

BusinessCategory

A string that contains the general business function or functions performed by the organizational unit, for example "Accounting".

Access type: Read/write

Scripting data type: BSTR

// C++ method syntax
HRESULT get_BusinessCategory(
  [out] BSTR* pbstrBusinessCategory
);
HRESULT put_BusinessCategory(
  [in] BSTR bstrBusinessCategory
);

Description

A string that contains a textual description of the organizational unit.

Access type: Read/write

Scripting data type: BSTR

// C++ method syntax
HRESULT get_Description(
  [out] BSTR* pbstrDescription
);
HRESULT put_Description(
  [in] BSTR bstrDescription
);

FaxNumber

A string that contains the facsimile number of the organizational unit.

Access type: Read/write

Scripting data type: BSTR

// C++ method syntax
HRESULT get_FaxNumber(
  [out] BSTR* pbstrFaxNumber
);
HRESULT put_FaxNumber(
  [in] BSTR bstrFaxNumber
);

LocalityName

A string that contains the name of the geographic region of the organizational unit.

Access type: Read/write

Scripting data type: BSTR

// C++ method syntax
HRESULT get_LocalityName(
  [out] BSTR* pbstrLocalityName
);
HRESULT put_LocalityName(
  [in] BSTR bstrLocalityName
);

PostalAddress

A string that contains the postal address of the organizational unit.

Access type: Read/write

Scripting data type: BSTR

// C++ method syntax
HRESULT get_PostalAddress(
  [out] BSTR* pbstrPostalAddress
);
HRESULT put_PostalAddress(
  [in] BSTR bstrPostalAddress
);

SeeAlso

An array of strings that contains the distinguished names of other directory objects which may be relevant to this object.

Access type: Read/write

Scripting data type: VARIANT

// C++ method syntax
HRESULT get_SeeAlso(
  [out] VARIANT* pvSeeAlso
);
HRESULT put_SeeAlso(
  [in] VARIANT vSeeAlso
);

TelephoneNumber

A string that contains the telephone number of the organizational unit.

Access type: Read/write

Scripting data type: BSTR

// C++ method syntax
HRESULT get_TelephoneNumber(
  [out] BSTR* pbstrTelephoneNumber
);
HRESULT put_TelephoneNumber(
  [in] BSTR bstrTelephoneNumber
);

Examples

The following code example displays the BusinessCategory and Description of all organization units in a container. It assumes that the underlying directory service supports grouping of directory objects by organization unit.

Dim dom As IADsContainer
Dim ou As IADsOU

' Bind to the container.
Set dom = GetObject("LDAP://server1/domain1")

' Filter out all objects that are not of class "organizationalUnit".
dom.filter = Array("organizationalUnit")

' Enumerate the organizational units in the container and display  
' the BusinessCategory and Description properties of each OU.
For Each ou In dom
    MsgBox ou.BusinessCategory & ": " & ou.Description
Next

Requirements

See also

IADsOU

Interface Property Methods