AJAX connector from web to Activedirectory

I haven't dealt with making an A/D call directly using AJAX, but you can certainly query A/D using your server-side language and return the result as json. Your AJAX connector would then just interact with the returned json object.

If you have a good relationship with your database team, you could request a special table that's populated by A/D and kept fresh using a scheduled job. One benefit to this approach is that it can be used on your intranet and public facing site without worrying about making calls to A/D. The caveat is that the DBAs would have to establish a linked server connection to A/D in order to keep your table populated.

Hi Lajuan,

we dont maintain a database for storing objects as the number of users are comparitively less. Howver we could store the user alias/SMTP in a csv/txt file. Is it possible to query ajax from web to the local csv.

Could you also share a sample code for the same.

Thank you so much.

@o365Adm - What server-side language are you using PHP, .NET, ColdFusion?

Do you have an automated way to keep the .csv/.txt file updated?

Hi Lajuan,

We use ASP with powershell. Yes we have an automated process to update the csv file.

@o365Adm - Okay, one more thing. What A/D objects will your .csv file contain?

I don't need any data. Just the .csv file layout.

Sample format.
alias,smtp,UPN
xyz123,xyz@mydomain.com,xyz@upn.com
abc123,abc@mydomain.com,abc@upn.com

@o365Adm - Just to confirm... You want a sample using classic ASP versus ASP.NET. Is that correct?

Correct. We are using classic ASP.

Hi Lajuan,

Thank you . We have possibility to export data to JSON. I will try your solution.
Again thank you so much for your help.