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#128249 - 2004-10-21 02:48 PM search for a user in AD
jan Offline
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Hi,

How do I search for a user in AD. I need to search from e.g ou=kpdk,dc=q8int,dc=com and all sub containers. I've tried to look at ADsearch but I'm not sure how to make it work.

Hope someone can help me

Jan
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#128250 - 2004-10-21 03:05 PM Re: search for a user in AD
Les Offline
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Why do you have to search?
What key attribute are you searching on?
What do you expect to get back?

If you have the SAMAccountName, you can simply translate it with the TranslateName() UDF.
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#128251 - 2004-10-21 03:24 PM Re: search for a user in AD
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I have users in different containsers and I don't know in which container they exists. I need to find the full DN of the user in order to get order informations
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#128252 - 2004-10-21 03:46 PM Re: search for a user in AD
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How do you expect to get good support if you don't give good info and don't answer my questions?

Did you even look at the UDF I suggested?
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#128253 - 2004-10-21 03:51 PM Re: search for a user in AD
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Yes I looked at TranslateName and that doesn't seems to solve my problem. Is there a easy way to get DN?
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#128254 - 2004-10-21 04:25 PM Re: search for a user in AD
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Give this script a shot and let me know if works.

Code:

break on
? "Enter username: "
gets $user
$OU = getOU($user)
? $OU

function getOU($userName)
    dim $dn,$objRootDSE,$strDomain
    dim $objConnection,$objCommand
    dim $objRecordSet
    $getOU = "Not Found"
    $objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
    $strDomain = $objRootDSE.Get("DefaultNamingContext")
    
    $objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
    $objConnection.Open ("Provider=ADsDSOObject;")
    $objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
    $objCommand.ActiveConnection = $objConnection
    $objCommand.CommandText = 
        "<LDAP://" + $strDomain + ">;((saMAccountName=" + $userName + "))" +
            ";distinguishedName,name;subtree"

    $objRecordSet = $objCommand.Execute

    While Not $objRecordSet.EOF
        $dn = $objRecordSet.Fields("distinguishedName").Value
        $getOU = $dn
        $objRecordSet.MoveNext
    loop
endfunction
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#128255 - 2004-10-21 04:32 PM Re: search for a user in AD
Anonymous
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I tried your script and it didn't worked. Isn't it because I need to type in the LDAP parameters? E.g.
(LDAP://ou=kpdk,dc=q8int,dc=com)?

Jan
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#128256 - 2004-10-21 04:49 PM Re: search for a user in AD
jan Offline
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Posts: 66
My mistake, it works now. Many thanks for your help :-)
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#128257 - 2004-10-22 04:16 PM Re: search for a user in AD
jan Offline
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Registered: 2004-07-07
Posts: 66
Hi,

Now I want to use the var it returns, but when I use it I get an errormsg: IDispatch pointers not allowed in expressions!

Here is the code:

FUNCTION mailbox($getou)
$mailbox=GETOBJECT("LDAP://$getou")
? "getobj @serror"
;? "Mailbox Information for $username:"
;? "User Information:"
;? "Display Name: " $mailbox.get("cn")
;? "Given Name: " $mailbox.get("givenname")
;? "Last Name: " $mailbox.get("sn")
;? "Alias: " $mailbox.get("uid")
;? "Mailbox Information:"
;? "Primary SMTP: " $mailbox.get("mail")
;? "X.400 Address: " $mailbox.get("textencodedoraddress")
;? "Home MTA: " $mailbox.get("home-mta")
;? "Home MDA: " $mailbox.get("home-mda")

ENDFUNCTION


function getOU($userName)
DIM $dn,$objRootDSE,$strDomain
DIM $objConnection,$objCommand
DIM $objRecordSet
$getOU = "Not Found"
$objRootDSE = GETOBJECT("LDAP://RootDSE")
$strDomain = $objRootDSE.Get("DefaultNamingContext")

$objConnection = CREATEOBJECT("ADODB.Connection")
$objConnection.Open ("Provider=ADsDSOObject;")
$objCommand = CREATEOBJECT("ADODB.Command")
$objCommand.ActiveConnection = $objConnection
$objCommand.CommandText =
"<LDAP://" + $strDomain + ">;((saMAccountName=" + $userName + "))" +
";distinguishedName,name;subtree"

$objRecordSet = $objCommand.Execute

WHILE Not $objRecordSet.EOF
$dn = $objRecordSet.Fields("distinguishedName").Value
$getOU = $dn
$objRecordSet.MoveNext
LOOP

mailbox($getou)

ENDFUNCTION


BREAK on

? "Enter username: " GETS $username

getOU($username)

Hope you can help me
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#128258 - 2004-10-22 05:12 PM Re: search for a user in AD
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Your Get's are objects. Objects cannot be outputed to a console.

$mailbox.get("cn")
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#128259 - 2004-10-22 05:18 PM Re: search for a user in AD
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Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK
... is commented out.

However there is some confusion I think between variable names and function return variable names that will definitely bite.

Also the return from the function is itself an object which is being mishandled.
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#128260 - 2004-10-25 11:10 AM Re: search for a user in AD
jan Offline
Getting the hang of it

Registered: 2004-07-07
Posts: 66
Hi,

Well I also get the error for these lines:
$mailbox=GETOBJECT("LDAP://$getou")

and that's not to output to the console
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#128261 - 2004-10-26 03:10 AM Re: search for a user in AD
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Registered: 2001-04-25
Posts: 11165
Loc: Boston, MA, USA
So, where do you set the $GetOU variable? Please show complete code when asking for help.
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