As you venture into this aspect of development, you will likely use 1 of 2 assemblies to provide you access to Active Directory (AD) or other directory services providers (DSP's). Microsoft's System.DirectoryServices is the most fundamental - providing core LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol) access to AD and its schema/components. The other is Microsoft's Active Directory Services Interface assembly (ADSI) - the ActiveDs.DLL - which is not so documented but provides a hoard of features...
Unable to connect to registry on the server (machineName), or you are not a member of the OLAP Administrators group on this server The devil is always in the details J The following I wanted to share because this individual sorted through this error and his resolution may help someone else. I am posting a summary of our correspondence. PROBLEM: BizTalk Deployment Failing – Error: Unable to connect to registry on the server (machineName), or you are not a member of the OLAP Administrators group...