User profiles / Active Directory attributes?

Question

I am currently using ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider only for authentication in an internal business application built in asp.net. It works like a charm.

Now I want to add some functions for processing user profile information for a user, ideally also stored in Active Directory.

For a simple example, suppose the user attribute is FavoriteColor. Then the goal would be my application so that it can read this user attribute for the authenticated user.

I learned a little ADAM. It seems like this would be great for the role provider, but I did not find anything that would indicate that it would work well for the Profile Provider or even let me store user attributes like FavoriteColor. Maybe someone knows better?

I'm also quite new to Active Directory, so maybe there is an option to save user attributes in it (like FavoriteColor)?

In general, am I just looking for ideas on a better way to implement this?

Thank!

Answer 1

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