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Introduction to using UMRA COM in Visual Basic scripts

A very common usage of UMRA COM is in Visual Basic scripts. Visual Basic is a very general development environment to create Windows applications and scripts. Managing Active Directory directly from Visual Basic programs and scripts is possible but rather complex and not secure.

The integration of Visual Basic and User Management Resource Administrators using UMRA COM offers a very flexible and powerful solution to manage the complex Active Directory with simple and robust program. The complex Active Directory tasks are implemented with UMRA projects and executed by the UMRA Service. The projects are initiated using UMRA COM from within Visual Basic scripts/programs.

Since the UMRA projects are executed by the UMRA Service in such an environment, the Visual Basic scripts and programs can be delegated to less experienced users. The UMRA Service will check the access rights of the connecting user account before the UMRA project script is executed.

The technique to use UMRA COM objects in Visual Basic scripts is best described with an example.