Eran Kampf
Eran Kampf
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[Code snippet] Obtaining Active Directory User Information Using System.DirectoryServices

Here’s a snippet I wrote recently to read a user’s information (name, phone etc.) from the active directory:

public static string GetUserInfo(string user, string propertyName)
{
  DirectoryEntry adRootDSE = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://rootDSE");
  DirectoryEntry adRoot = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + (string)adRootDSE.Properties["defaultNamingContext"].Value);
  DirectorySearcher searcher = new DirectorySearcher(adRoot);
  searcher.Filter = “(&(objectClass=user)(samAccountName=” + user + “))”;
  SearchResult result = searcher.FindOne();

  if (result == null) {
    return “null”;
  }


  ResultPropertyValueCollection values = result.Properties[propertyName];

  return ((values != null) && (values.Count > 0)) ? values[0].ToString() : “null”;
}

Example use for this function:

string firstName = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “givenName”);
string middleName = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “middleName”);
string lastName = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “sn”);
string primaryMail = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “mail”);
string secondaryMail = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “otherMailbox”);
string phoneWork = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “telephoneNumber”);
string phoneHome = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “homePhone”);
string phoneMobile = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “mobile”);
string phonePager = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “pager”);
string fax = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “facsimileTelephoneNumber”);
string www = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “wwwHomePage”);
string company = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “company”);
string department = ActiveDirectory.GetUserInfo(userName, “department”);

Security note:
This code requires Full Trust for the immediate caller and cannot be used by partially trusted code.

Update: Note that DirectoryEntry implements IDisposable and I am not disposing them in my code.
I should have used using statements here…

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