Get a user's email address from the username via PowerShell and WMI?

Question

I have a user's network login name. From PowerShell and WMI is it possible to get a valid email for that user? Note that the login name is different than the name in the email, so I can't just combine the login name with the email domain.

Answer 1

The simplest way is to useActive-Directory.

As you are using PowerShell tag and not PowerShell V2.0 you can use ADSI.

Clear-Host
$dn = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry ("LDAP://WM2008R2ENT:389/dc=dom,dc=fr","[email protected]","Pwd")

# Look for a user
$user2Find = "user1"
$Rech = new-object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher($dn)
$rc = $Rech.filter = "((sAMAccountName=$user2Find))"
$rc = $Rech.SearchScope = "subtree"
$rc = $Rech.PropertiesToLoad.Add("mail");

$theUser = $Rech.FindOne()
if ($theUser -ne $null)
{
  Write-Host $theUser.Properties["mail"]
}

You can also use userPrincipalName instead of sAMAccountName in the filter, for userPrincipalName you can use user@domain form.

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Using WMI : If you absolutly want to do it with WMI.

$user2Find = "user1"
$query = "SELECT * FROM ds_user where ds_sAMAccountName='$user2find'"
$user = Get-WmiObject -Query $query -Namespace "root\Directory\LDAP"
$user.DS_mail

You can use the second solution localy on your server or from a computer inside the domain, but it's a bit more complicated to authenticate to WMI from outside the domain.

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Using PowerShell 2.0

Import-Module activedirectory
$user2Find = "user1"
$user = Get-ADUser $user2Find -Properties mail
$user.mail