I found myself needing to extract the current user’s full name from our Active Directory today. For a variety of reasons, I’ve not done too much work in this area, so I had to hunt around for a few minutes before arriving at a solution.<\/p>\n
Firstly, I had to add a reference to System.DirectoryServices to my project – no problem, right click on the References node in Visual Studio and choose Add Reference. Secondly, I had to add using System.DirectoryServices to my source code.<\/p>\n
Anyway, here’s the C# code that I used – note the use of the UserName property from the Environment class<\/a>.<\/p>\n string name = result.Properties[\"displayName<\/strong>\"].Value.ToString();<\/code><\/p>\n In my case, the username CMurphy became Craig Murphy (displayName). Your properties may vary, and you’ll need to know your own domain context (dc).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I found myself needing to extract the current user’s full name from our Active Directory today. For a variety of reasons, I’ve not done too much work in this area, so I had to hunt around for a few minutes before arriving at a solution. Firstly, I had to add a reference to System.DirectoryServices to … Continue reading Using LDAP to locate a user name<\/span> using System.DirectoryServices;
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\nDirectoryEntry directoryEntry = new DirectoryEntry(\"LDAP:\/\/dc=DOMAIN_CONTEXT,dc=com\");
\nDirectorySearcher directorySearcher = new DirectorySearcher(directoryEntry);
\ndirectorySearcher.Filter = \"(&(objectCategory=person)(sAMAccountName=\" + Environment.UserName + \"))\";
\nDirectoryEntry result = directorySearcher.FindOne().GetDirectoryEntry();<\/p>\n