I need to add to my rules extension code for Active Directory for when an email address changes. I need to be able to loop through the proxyAddresses and change any values in this attribute to reflect the new email address. Can you point me to where I can see sample C# code on how this is done? Thanks.

This is a VB example for working with proxyAddresses If mventry("proxyAddresses").Values.Contains(<any expression>)) Then <Your Code, for example add a value to the csentry attribute> csentry("proxyAddresses").Values.Add("smtp:" & csentry("whatever") End If For Each mailAddress In mventry("proxyAddresses").Values <Your Code> Next /Matthias

Thanks, that helps. I'm really looking for the C# equivalent.

Here you go. Note it makes the ssumption that csentry["proxyAddresses"] exists in the first code block. Otherwise you'll need to initialize a new value collection first. if (mventry["proxyAddresses"].IsPresent && mventry["proxyAddresses"].Values.Contains("stuff")) { csentry["proxyAddresses"].Values.Add("smtp:" + csentry["foo"].Value) } foreach string address in mventry["proxyAddresses"].Values { // do stuff }My Book - Active Directory, 4th Edition My Blog - www.briandesmond.com

Brian - I don't believe I'm going to be adding entries, only changing the values of the existing entries due to a change of name or email address. So I'm assuming there's some sort of replace function that I would use to do this? Sorry, I'm very new to C#.

Basically you want something like this then: ValueCollection values = new ValueCollection("placeholder"); values.Clear() values.Add("SMTP:primaryaddr@domain.com") values.Add("smtp:secondaryAddr@domain.com") csentry["proxyAddresses"].Values = values; My Book - Active Directory, 4th Edition My Blog - www.briandesmond.com

So I'm gathering from your example that there is no way of manipulating a multi-value attribute (i.e. replace the values in place?) and the only solution is to clear out the values and re-add them in the way you specified? I cannot seem to get this bit of code to work: foreach (string mailAddress in mventry["proxyAddresses"].Values) { //do stuff } *Cannot convert type 'Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.Value' to 'string'

So I'm gathering from your example that there is no way of manipulating a multi-value attribute (i.e. replace the values in place?) and the only solution is to clear out the values and re-add them in the way you specified?

Clearing it out and reloading them is the easiest. FIM will only actually send the effective changes when it exports. Replace string mailAddress with Value mailAddress.My Book - Active Directory, 4th Edition My Blog - www.briandesmond.com