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Enabling and Disabling the User Account

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This topic provides code examples for enabling and disabling a user account. It uses the Properties method to access the userAccountControl property to set the ADS_UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE flag which is defined in the ADS_USER_FLAG_ENUM.

The following code example shows how to enable a user account.

[C#]

DirectoryEntry usr = 
    new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://CN=New User,CN=users,DC=fabrikam,DC=com");
int val = (int) usr.Properties["userAccountControl"].Value;
usr.Properties["userAccountControl"].Value = val & ~ADS_UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE;
usr.CommitChanges();

The following code example shows how to disable a user account.

[C#]

DirectoryEntry usr = 
    new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://CN=Old User,CN=users,DC=fabrikam,DC=com");
int val = (int) usr.Properties["userAccountControl"].Value;
usr.Properties["userAccountControl"].Value = val | ADS_UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE;
usr.CommitChanges();