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c#asp.net-coreactive-directory
Alexis
Alexis

Reputation: 411

Get Department of user from AD

Working with Active directory in an ASP.net CORE MVC website, I can get many user property like diplayName, emailAdress... But I cannot find the departement of the user.
Get user informations :

UserPrincipal user = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain), Environment.UserName);

But user haven't a property "Department".

I've try :

DirectoryEntry directoryEntry = user.GetUnderlyingObject() as DirectoryEntry;
        var property = "department";
        if (directoryEntry.Properties.Contains(property))
        {
            var dep = directoryEntry.Properties[property].Value.ToString();
        }

No departement property neither.

EDIT

Here's a list of properties available : "objectClass, cn, sn, title, description, userCertificate, givenName, distinguishedName, instanceType, whenCreated, whenChanged, displayName, uSNCreated, memberOf, uSNChanged, proxyAddresses, homeMDB, mDBUseDefaults, mailNickname, name, objectGUID, userAccountControl, badPwdCount, codePage, countryCode, badPasswordTime, lastLogon, pwdLastSet, primaryGroupID, objectSid, accountExpires, logonCount, sAMAccountName, sAMAccountType, showInAddressBook, legacyExchangeDN, userPrincipalName, objectCategory, dSCorePropagationData, lastLogonTimestamp, textEncodedORAddress, mail and Lot of msExchange"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3321

Answers (2)

Azat Gafarov
Azat Gafarov

Reputation: 3

To search for an employee's unit

Use value

Department = directoryEntry.Properties["subdivision"].Value as string,

Upvotes: 0

Matthew Watson
Matthew Watson

Reputation: 109852

This works for me (using a mixture of AccountManagement and DirectoryServices):

var ad = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, DOMAIN);
var u  = new UserPrincipal(ad) {SamAccountName = Environment.UserName};

using (var search = new PrincipalSearcher(u))
{
    var user = (UserPrincipal) search.FindOne();

    DirectoryEntry dirEntry = (DirectoryEntry)user.GetUnderlyingObject();
    string dept = dirEntry.Properties["Department"].Value.ToString();
    Console.WriteLine(dept);
}

This requires the following using:

using System;
using System.DirectoryServices;
using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement;

Upvotes: 6

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