Adding Users to an Application Group in C++

In Authorization Manager, an application group is a group of users and user groups. An application group can contain other application groups, so groups of users can be nested. An application group is represented by an IAzApplicationGroup object.

To allow members of an application group to perform a task or set of tasks, assign that application group to a role that contains those tasks. Roles are represented by IAzRole objects.

The following example shows how to create an application group, add a user as a member of the application group, and assign the application group to an existing role. The example assumes that there is an existing XML policy store named MyStore.xml in the root directory of drive C, that this store contains an application named Expense, and that this application contains a role named Expense Administrator.

#ifndef _WIN32_WINNT
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0502
#endif
#pragma comment(lib, "duser.lib")

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <azroles.h>
#include <objbase.h>

void main(void){
    IAzAuthorizationStore* pStore = NULL;
    IAzApplication* pApp = NULL;
    IAzApplicationGroup* pAppGroup = NULL;
    IAzRole* pRole = NULL;
    HRESULT hr;
    void MyHandleError(char *s);
    BSTR storeName = NULL;
    BSTR appName = NULL;
    BSTR groupName = NULL;
    BSTR userName = NULL;
    BSTR roleName = NULL;
    
    
    //  Initialize COM.
    hr = CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED);
    if (!(SUCCEEDED(hr)))
        MyHandleError("Could not initialize COM.");

    //  Create the AzAuthorizationStore object.
    hr = CoCreateInstance(
   /*"b2bcff59-a757-4b0b-a1bc-ea69981da69e"*/
         __uuidof(AzAuthorizationStore),
         NULL,
         CLSCTX_ALL,
   /*"edbd9ca9-9b82-4f6a-9e8b-98301e450f14"*/
         __uuidof(IAzAuthorizationStore),
         (void**)&pStore);
    if (!(SUCCEEDED(hr)))
        MyHandleError("Could not create AzAuthorizationStore object.");
    
    //  Create null VARIANT for parameters.
    VARIANT myVar; 
    VariantInit(&myVar);

    //  Allocate a string for the name of the policy store.
    if(!(storeName = SysAllocString(L"msxml://c:\\MyStore.xml")))
        MyHandleError("Could not allocate string.");
    
    //  Initialize the store.
    hr = pStore->Initialize(AZ_AZSTORE_FLAG_MANAGE_STORE_ONLY,
  storeName, myVar);
    if (!(SUCCEEDED(hr)))
        MyHandleError("Could not initialize store.");

    //  Create an application object.
    if (!(appName = SysAllocString(L"Expense")))
        MyHandleError("Could not allocate application name string.");
    hr = pStore->OpenApplication(appName, myVar, &pApp);
    if (!(SUCCEEDED(hr)))
        MyHandleError("Could not open application.");

    //  Allocate a string for the group name.
    if (!(groupName = SysAllocString(L"Approvers")))
        MyHandleError("Could not allocate group name string.");

    //  Create an IAzApplicationGroup object.
    hr = pApp->CreateApplicationGroup(groupName, myVar, &pAppGroup);
    if (!(SUCCEEDED(hr)))
        MyHandleError("Could not create application group.");

    //  Add a member to the group.
 //  Replace with valid domain and user name.
    if (!(userName = SysAllocString(L"domain\\username")))
        MyHandleError("Could not allocate user name string.");

    hr = pAppGroup->AddMemberName(userName, myVar);
    if (!(SUCCEEDED(hr)))
        MyHandleError("Could not add user to application group.");

    //  Save information to the store.
    hr = pAppGroup->Submit(0, myVar);
    if (!(SUCCEEDED(hr)))
        MyHandleError("Could not save group information.");

    //  Open an IAzRole object.
    if (!(roleName = SysAllocString(L"Expense Administrator")))
        MyHandleError("Could not allocate role name string.");

    hr = pApp->OpenRole(roleName, myVar, &pRole);
    if (!(SUCCEEDED(hr)))
        MyHandleError("Could not open role object.");

    //  Add the group to the role.
    hr = pRole->AddAppMember(groupName, myVar);
    if(!(SUCCEEDED(hr)))
        MyHandleError("Could not add the application group to the role.");


    //  Save information to the store.
    hr = pRole->Submit(0, myVar);
    if (!(SUCCEEDED(hr)))
        MyHandleError("Could not save role data to the store.");

    //  Clean up resources.
    pStore->Release();
    pApp->Release();
    pAppGroup->Release();
    pRole->Release();
    SysFreeString(storeName);
    SysFreeString(appName);
    SysFreeString(groupName);
    SysFreeString(roleName);
    SysFreeString(userName);
    VariantClear(&myVar);
    CoUninitialize();
}

void MyHandleError(char *s)
{
    printf("An error occurred in running the program.\n");
    printf("%s\n",s);
    printf("Error number %x\n.",GetLastError());
    printf("Program terminating.\n");
    exit(1);
}