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mahesh
mahesh

Reputation: 251

Active Directory Attribute List Using c#

How i get the list of active directory user attributes(not of particular user i.e.all attributes) e.g.cn,mail etc. using c#?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 16809

Answers (6)

Drew Chapin
Drew Chapin

Reputation: 8009

Expanding on marc_s's answer here. Here is a complete code example that prints the common name and the actual attribute name. 

ActiveDirectorySchema schema = ActiveDirectorySchema.GetCurrentSchema();
ActiveDirectorySchemaClass person = schema.FindClass("user");
foreach( ActiveDirectorySchemaProperty property in person.GetAllProperties() )
{
    Console.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", property.CommonName, property.Name);
}

Example output. 

Common-Name = cn
Instance-Type = instanceType
NT-Security-Descriptor = nTSecurityDescriptor
Object-Category = objectCategory
Object-Class = objectClass
Object-Sid = objectSid
SAM-Account-Name = sAMAccountName
Account-Expires = accountExpires
...

Upvotes: 0

mahesh
mahesh

Reputation: 251

UserPropertyList = new List<string>();

ActiveDirectorySchema currSchema = ActiveDirectorySchema.GetCurrentSchema();

ICollection Collection = currSchema.FindAllProperties();

IEnumerator Enumerator = Collection.GetEnumerator();

while (Enumerator.MoveNext())
{
   UserPropertyList.Add(Enumerator.Current.ToString());
}

The above code will add all search attributes of Active Directory to the UserPropertyList...

Upvotes: 0

Jonathan Stanton
Jonathan Stanton

Reputation: 2660

While ADExplorer does not list all the available attributes, I have found it a great tool for seeing what goes where.

You can download it from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907.aspx

Upvotes: 0

Vijay Sirigiri
Vijay Sirigiri

Reputation: 4721

You could use WMI:

 ObjectGetOptions objectGetOptions = new ObjectGetOptions(null, System.TimeSpan.MaxValue, true);
 ManagementClass managementClass = new ManagementClass("root\\directory\\LDAP", "ads_user", objectGetOptions);

 foreach (PropertyData dataObject in managementClass.Properties)
 {
    Console.WriteLine(dataObject.Name);
 }

Upvotes: 0

marc_s
marc_s

Reputation: 755491

If you're on .NET 3.5 and up, you need to check out the classes in System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory for this. You need to look at classes like ActiveDirectorySchema and ActiveDirectorySchemaClass.

You can get hold of the current AD schema by using:

ActiveDirectorySchema currSchema = ActiveDirectorySchema.GetCurrentSchema();

When you have the current schema, you can inspect the various class definitions, e.g.:

ActiveDirectorySchemaClass userSchema = currSchema.FindClass("person");

Once you have that object, you can inspect and enumerate its properties, things like:

  • MandatoryProperties
  • OptionalProperties

and so on to get an insight into the AD schema.

Upvotes: 5

Kamyar
Kamyar

Reputation: 18797

DirectoryEntry dir = new DirectoryEntry();
    dir.Path = "LDAP://YourActiveDirServername ";        
    DirectorySearcher sea = new DirectorySearcher(dir);
    sea.Filter = "(sAMAccountName=Uname)";
    SearchResult seares = sea.FindOne();      
    StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
    System.DirectoryServices.ResultPropertyCollection prop = seares.Properties;
    ICollection coll = prop.PropertyNames;
    IEnumerator enu = coll.GetEnumerator(); 
        while (enu.MoveNext())
        {
            str.Append(enu.Current + " = " + seares.Properties[enu.Current.ToString()][0] + "\n");
        }

Also, take a look at: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/everythingInAD.aspx

Upvotes: 1

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