Retrieving Users and Groups from AD in chunks??

[Johan]

Here is my problem and I hope there is someone out-there who can help
me.

I want to search my domain for all users and groups. And since there
are lot of them I want to read them back in chunks of 50, how do I do
that?

I have tried to use the property SizeLimit of the Directory searcher
and yea I only get 50 objects back but how the h-ll do I get the next
chunk of 50 objects back? Can I somehow specify a range similar to the
range that is used to retrive chunks of attributes?

Hope I made some sense atleast because I'm a bit cunfused hera about
what is used for different things in the direcory searcher and the
documentation is quite poor.

I'm starting to get desperate here!

Johan

[Joe Kaplan \(MVP - ADSI\)]

You can't. You need to use Paged searches (0 < PageSize <= max page size,
normally 1000) , but you can't retrieve the pages explicitly. That is all
done for you as you enumerate the results.

You could enumerate the results 50 at a time, but you need to enumerate the
whole result set from one search.

Joe K.

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Here is my problem and I hope there is someone out-there who can help
me.

I want to search my domain for all users and groups. And since there
are lot of them I want to read them back in chunks of 50, how do I do
that?

I have tried to use the property SizeLimit of the Directory searcher
and yea I only get 50 objects back but how the h-ll do I get the next
chunk of 50 objects back? Can I somehow specify a range similar to the
range that is used to retrive chunks of attributes?

Hope I made some sense atleast because I'm a bit cunfused hera about
what is used for different things in the direcory searcher and the
documentation is quite poor.

I'm starting to get desperate here!

Johan