Report from Registry ?

[craigK]

Does anyone know if it is possible to report directly from the local registry? We have an application that writes user ids and other misc info to the directory services keys locally. i'm using version 9.0, but have access to the higher versions as well.

 

[stravis]

You can not report off of the local registry as far as I know, but you can report off of Active Directory. You do this using the Active Directory OLEDB provider. An explanation on how to do this is here,

http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2016008.asp

 

[craigK]

Thanks what i thought, but wanted to see if anyone had done it. i currently run some LDAP queries on AD, but that doesn't help any for this particluar app server.

 

[stravis]

The only other option is programmatic. You could load the data from the registry in to a dataset and generate your report usine Visual Studio Crystal Reports, or you could write the data to a database then report off that. The database could be syncronized periodically or in realtime.