Local active directory access and management for development?

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Published on 2010-03-15T19:31:44Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 19:39 UTC
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Hi everybody,

In an application we are developpment, we are accessing Active Directory users and groups using the .Net DirectoryEntry and DirectorySearcher classes. Managing the test groups and users during development is getting tedious.

I am wondering if there was an easy way to setup a simple local AD in which we could easily create / delete users and assign them or remove them from groups as we want with the DirectoryEntry / DirectorySearcher classes?

Thanks.

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