I am building an application that interacts with Active Directory using System.Management.Automation (Not using Directory Services because currently new to that library and learning it). To update the group membership of for a group in the active directory I am creating a JSON object on my view and invoking a function to pass the object & the URI from front end to back end via a function in my controller.
The basic idea is to allow removal of AD group members in bulk by passing the JSON object as a parameter to the shell script which will be executed in an instance of PowerShell created in the function. I am using .ajax call to invoke the controller function and passing the JSON object that I generated as an argument along with the current URI. The shell.commands.AddParameter() function accepts argument in only string format. So, I typecasted it with ToString() and converting it to JSON in the PowerShell script. I am passing the URL from code behind as the URL is subject to change. I am not getting any errors However, I am also not able to see any update in membership in the AD. Json Object is getting generated from HTML Table.
My shell script
param($objMemberUpdate, $uri) $body = $objMemberUpdate | ConvertTo-JSON Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $uri -Method Post -Body $objMemberUpdate
My Controller Function in ASP MVC to Invoke PowerShell Instance and executing Shell Script file from specified location.
private string UpdateMemberList(JsonResult objMemberUpdate)
{
var uri = HttpContext.Request.Url.AbsoluteUri;
var shell = PowerShell.Create();
shell.Commands.AddCommand(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "Shell\\Set-ADGroupMembership.ps1").AddParameter(objMemberUpdate.ToString(), uri);
var results = shell.Invoke();
shell.Dispose();
return results.ToString();
}The Ajax Call that I am calling on a button click on my HTML page.
//Make Array Object to pass in the API For Membership Update
$("#btnUpdate").click(function () {
var RemoveMembers = [];
var RemoveAfter = [];
var MemberUpdate = {};
var GroupGUID = "";
$("table [id*=ddlReqdAdjustment]").each(function () {
if ($(this).val() != "Keep") {
GroupGUID = $(this).parent().parent().children().eq(4)[0].innerText;
var date = $(this).parent().parent().children().eq(8)[0].firstElementChild.value;
var ObjectGUID = $(this).parent().parent().children().eq(3)[0].innerText + "@@" + $('#ddlDirectory').val();
if ($(this).val() == "Remove") {
var format = ObjectGUID;
RemoveMembers.push(format);
} else {
var format = date + "|" + ObjectGUID;
RemoveAfter.push(format);
}
}
});
MemberUpdate = {"Directory": $('#ddlDirectory').val(),"Group": GroupGUID,"Remove": RemoveMembers,"RemoveAfter": RemoveAfter,"ResultFormat": "json","OnBehalfOf": "11112201"
};
console.log(MemberUpdate);
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "/Group/UpdateMemberList",
data: { objMemberUpdate: MemberUpdate },
success: function (response) {
alert(response.message);
}
});The selected member in the table is supposed to get removed from the Group whose GroupGUID (ObjectGUID attribute in AD) is mentioned from the AD. However, no compile time or no runtime error is encountered and nit even any changes are reflected and I think this must be due to problem with my JSON Object?