Directory Programming .NET

I just want to ask how would I get a specific attribute of an Active Directory  user, such as the TITLE or MANAGER using the new System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement. Thanks.

 

Quick and dirty way would be like this:

((DirectoryEntry)UserPrincipalObject.GetUnderlyingObject()).Properties["title"][0].ToString

 

To do it right you should search around on how to extend the UserPrincipal class. 

Yep, that's exactly it.  :)

There are a few strong examples of custom extensions to the various Principal classes buried in code samples in this forum that are worth checking out if something more than "quick and dirty" is desired.

The key point in deciding whether to bother with this depends a great deal on how much code you will be writing that will consume your custom Principal objects and how easy you want to make it for them.

thanks rich, joe. It works.

To add on this further. Is there a way to create a custom search that would check to see if someone is a manager of an OU? I'm sure there is but I am so new to this I still have the new car smell.

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Web Developer
Daxcon Engineering

Possibly, but the term "manager of an OU" doesn't have a definite meaning in AD.  Can you be more specific regarding what is meant by "manager of an OU"?  Is that a user with delegated permissions to do a specific thing to a specific OU or is that something else?

I asked my Domain Admin and he said it means "Managed By" in the AD. My boss said he thinks it's just a title. I haven't had time to do a search on it yet since I didn't know what it was called exactly. I was trying to use the "manager" attribute which is put into a custom identifier by the Ad add user web application that is used to put in the user.

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Web Developer
Daxcon Engineering

If you want to read the managedBy attribute on an organizationalUnit object, you can't do that with SDS.AM because it only provides a wrapper around user, group and computer objects.

You can read the managedBy attribute on an OU using SDS or SDS.P if that information is meaningful to you for your purpose.