Getting the foreign owner of an organization by using XML

Use the GetForeignOwnerOrg procedure of the Managed Active Directory namespace to return a reseller's hosting organization or a customer's reseller. The supplied organization must be the root of its own organization. Hosting organizations do not have a foreign owner.

This call is implemented internally by checking the otherWellKnownObjects property of the supplied organizational unit. The foreign owner organization of an organization root can be bund to as LDAP://<WKGUID=58888CFC8F7F430C8183102CD5758D8a, ou=Reseller, ou=Hosting,dc=contoso01.dc=com>.

This procedure expects to be called with impersonate="1". The procedure impersonates the caller.

Example of a request that calls the GetForeignOwnerOrg procedure

<response>
  <data>
	<executeData>
	<path>LDAP://ou=Reseller,ou=Hosting,dc=contoso01,dc=com</path>
	<owner>LDAP://OU=Hosting,DC=contoso01,DC=com</owner>
	</executeData>
  </data>
</response>

Input for GetForeignOwnerOrg

The following input is valid for this request:

LDAP path of the organization
Use the <path> element to specify the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) path of the root organization for which you want to find the owner.
```
<path>LDAP://LDAP path of the root organization</group>
```
Preferred domain controller (optional)
By using the <preferredDomainController> element, you can specify the domain controller that you want to use for this request. Using a single preferred domain controller eliminates replication delays that arise between multiple controllers.
```
<preferredDomainController>your domain controller</preferredDomainController>
```

Typical response for GetForeignOwnerOrg

<response>
  <data>
	<executeData>
	<path>LDAP://ou=Reseller,ou=Hosting,dc=contoso01,dc=com</path>
	<owner>LDAP://OU=Hosting,DC=contoso01,DC=com</owner>
	</executeData>
  </data>
</response>

Important

Although Active Directory is not case sensitive for elements such as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) path, XML is case sensitive. To ensure that the procedure executes appropriately, specify all tags, elements, and data using uppercase and lowercase letters exactly as shown in the XML examples. For additional guidelines on how to use XML, see the Microsoft Web site (http://www.microsoft.com/).