How I get Active Directory User Properties with System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement Namespace?

Tarasov picture Tarasov · Jan 11, 2013 · Viewed 28.8k times · Source

I want do get Active Directory Properties from a user and I want to use System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.

my code:

public static void GetUserProperties(string dc,string user) 
        {
            PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, dc);
            UserPrincipal u = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(ctx, user);

            string firstname = u.GivenName;
            string lastname = u.Surname;
            string email = u.EmailAddress;
            string telephone = u.VoiceTelephoneNumber;

            ...//how I can get company and other properties?
        }

Answer

user3460811 picture user3460811 · Mar 25, 2014

You can transition into the DirectoryServices namespace to get any property you need.

PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, dc);
UserPrincipal u = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(ctx, user);

string firstname = u.GivenName;
string lastname = u.Surname;
string email = u.EmailAddress;
string telephone = u.VoiceTelephoneNumber;
string company = String.Empty;

...//how I can get company and other properties?
if (userPrincipal.GetUnderlyingObjectType() == typeof(DirectoryEntry))
{
    // Transition to directory entry to get other properties
    using (var entry = (DirectoryEntry)userPrincipal.GetUnderlyingObject())
    {
        if (entry.Properties["company"] != null)
            company = entry.Properties["company"].Value.ToString();
    }
}