DNN Ver 5.6.7
.NET 3.5

Anyone know of a way to access/update user accounts on a DNN site from another web application? 

My goal is to allow customer service to update an employee's DNN password from an intranet app (that includes some other employee related, non-DNN data), but I'm not having any luck. I tried adding a simple web service to a virtual directory ([as described here](http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Blogs/EntryId/1085/DotNetNuke-Tip-15-Running-a-webservice-inside-of-a-DNN-site.aspx)) to the DNN site, hoping the web service would then have access to all things DNN, but I'm not able to create instances of the UserInfoController - it's not instantiating the MemberProvider object.

```
UserController objUserController = new UserController();
UserInfo objUser = objUserController.GetUser(portalId, userId);

```

Each time, the objUserController object shows null for DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.MembershipProvider

Both the DNN site and our internal web app are hosted on the same server. Any suggestions are appreciated.

EDIT: In addition to all the DLLs in the DNN bin folder, I also copied everything from the DNN web.config into my web service web.config that looked DNN related