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    <p>I'm working on a C# application that requires a list of users to be spooled from Active Directory, an AD credential that has read-only privileges has been created but the organization has a policy for not giving a 3rd party user credentials.</p> <p>Judging by <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4866007/automatic-log-in-to-active-directory/">Nate's answer here</a> it is possible to query AD with the current logged on user. What I would like to know is do I have to preconfigure this in the AppPool Identity or will setting impersonate to "true" in my web.config as shown below solve this?</p> <pre><code>&lt;identity impersonate="true" lockItem="false"/&gt; &lt;anonymousIdentification enabled="true"/&gt; &lt;authentication mode="Windows"&gt; </code></pre> <p>Below is the code I'm using to connect to AD to fetch my list of users:</p> <pre><code>using (PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(contextType, domainName)) { try { // define a "query-by-example" principal - here, we search for all users UserPrincipal qbeUser = new UserPrincipal(ctx); qbeUser.Name = "*"; // create your principal searcher passing in the QBE principal PrincipalSearcher srch = new PrincipalSearcher(); srch.QueryFilter = qbeUser; // find all matches foreach (UserPrincipal result in srch.FindAll()) { WindowsUser usr = new WindowsUser(result); // WindowsUser is my own user-defined class resultSet.Add(usr); // resultSet is a list of WindowsUser } } catch (Exception ex) { throw ex; } } return resultSet; </code></pre> <p>Any answers will be greatly appreciated as I have to be at the clients office in a very short space of time.</p>
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    1. COYou can define the credentials to use in another overload of the `PrincipalSearcher` constructor - see the MSDN docs for details!
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