Looks like not all columns are born equal on Active Directory linked server on SQL Server.

I have a pretty little view which initially was selecting just four columns (mail, samaccountname,company and displayname) from a linked AD on an SQL Server 2000. Trust me, there was a reason to add more columns to the view. However, my attempt to include all the columns I wanted (valid columns!) was throwing error

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While working on a simple system that would allow using Microsoft Word to mail merge documents to users on the network, I bumped into the proverbial 1000 row limitation imposed by the Active Directory interface.

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My article on Active Directory integration has been published by the Coldfusion Developer Journal. You can read it here.

Since we have decided to use the AD as the user management foundation for the different web applications running on the network, it's now so easy to write applications without worry. But won't it be nice for users to login on one application and remain in session across multiple applications just like you have on yahoo, msn, windows network, etc?

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When CF developers talk of not reinventing the wheel, we tend to quickly think of CFLIB.org, fancy web services, borrowed CFCs, commercial components like SoEditor, KTML, etc

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