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Hi
I wonder if there is other / faster ways to get ou of the login user?

Here is what I can think of
- authentication
- Search with SAMAccountName=<username entered>
- set PropertiesToLoad.Add("distinguishedName")
- parse the OU= string from the property returned

TIA

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That will probably work fine. You might also consider p/invoking the
TranslateName Windows API as it can convert from login name to distinguished
name.

If you do parse, be careful about encoded "," characters in the DN. You
can't be 100% sure that a simple Split on the comma will work as the name
component can have a "," in it if it is preceded by "\". Thus you could
have:

CN=Doe\, Jane,OU=people,DC=domain,DC=com

If your AD doesn't use that naming convention, you are fine, but just
remember that it is legal syntax and could cause funny bugs at runtime in
code that seems to work fine 95% of the time.

Joe K.

<dl> wrote in message news:%...
> Hi
> I wonder if there is other / faster ways to get ou of the login user?
>
> Here is what I can think of
> - authentication
> - Search with SAMAccountName=<username entered>
> - set PropertiesToLoad.Add("distinguishedName")
> - parse the OU= string from the property returned
>
> TIA
>
> --
>
>
>

dl schrieb:

> Here is what I can think of
> - authentication
> - Search with SAMAccountName=<username entered>
> - set PropertiesToLoad.Add("distinguishedName")
> - parse the OU= string from the property returned

Why parsing the dn when you can just ask the corresponding class?

If you search the account by using the DirectorySearcher class, as result
you will get an object of type SearchResult. Call on this object
..GetDirectoryEntry().Parent.Path and you get what you want.

Jan

Yep, that works too. Thanks for pointing that out.

Joe K.

"Jan Peter Stotz" <> wrote in message
news:...
> dl schrieb:
>
>> Here is what I can think of
>> - authentication
>> - Search with SAMAccountName=<username entered>
>> - set PropertiesToLoad.Add("distinguishedName")
>> - parse the OU= string from the property returned
>
> Why parsing the dn when you can just ask the corresponding class?
>
> If you search the account by using the DirectorySearcher class, as result
> you will get an object of type SearchResult. Call on this object
> .GetDirectoryEntry().Parent.Path and you get what you want.
>
> Jan

Thanks Joe.

"Joe Kaplan (MVP - ADSI)" <> wrote
in message news:...
> That will probably work fine. You might also consider p/invoking the
> TranslateName Windows API as it can convert from login name to
distinguished
> name.
>
> If you do parse, be careful about encoded "," characters in the DN. You
> can't be 100% sure that a simple Split on the comma will work as the name
> component can have a "," in it if it is preceded by "\". Thus you could
> have:
>
> CN=Doe\, Jane,OU=people,DC=domain,DC=com
>
> If your AD doesn't use that naming convention, you are fine, but just
> remember that it is legal syntax and could cause funny bugs at runtime in
> code that seems to work fine 95% of the time.
>
> Joe K.
>
> <dl> wrote in message news:%...
> > Hi
> > I wonder if there is other / faster ways to get ou of the login user?
> >
> > Here is what I can think of
> > - authentication
> > - Search with SAMAccountName=<username entered>
> > - set PropertiesToLoad.Add("distinguishedName")
> > - parse the OU= string from the property returned
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Thanks Jan. But what is returned by the GetDirectoryEntry().Parent.Path?
can you give a sample format please?
TIA

"Jan Peter Stotz" <> wrote in message
news:...
> dl schrieb:
>
> > Here is what I can think of
> > - authentication
> > - Search with SAMAccountName=<username entered>
> > - set PropertiesToLoad.Add("distinguishedName")
> > - parse the OU= string from the property returned
>
> Why parsing the dn when you can just ask the corresponding class?
>
> If you search the account by using the DirectorySearcher class, as result
> you will get an object of type SearchResult. Call on this object
> .GetDirectoryEntry().Parent.Path and you get what you want.
>
> Jan

dl wrote:

> Thanks Jan. But what is returned by the GetDirectoryEntry().Parent.Path?
> can you give a sample format please?

The "DirectoryEntry.Path Property" is a String property. For a detailed
description search the .Net Framwork SDK Documentation.

VB.NET:

Dim searcher as new DirectorySearcher("LDAP://dc=yourdomain,dc=com")
searcher.Filter="(&(objectClass=user)(samaccountna me=" & username & "))"
Dim result as SearchResult = searcher.FindOne
Dim userEntry as DirectoryEntry = result.GetDirectoryEntry()
Dim containerEntry as DirectoryEntry = userEntry.Parent
Dim String containerPath = containerEntry.Path

Jan