Getting info from AD

Hg El

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I'm working on a site where users authenticate via Active Directory. I can retrieve the users fullname via CurrentUser.Fullname or username via CurrentUser.UserName. That's pretty much it... I would like to retrieve the users e-mailadress as well... and maybe some other info. How can I go about getting this information out of the AD? The site is using CMS 6 R2. What would be the easiest way?

#73728

Aug 07, 2013 10:09

Johan Petersson

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Hi,

The easiest way is to use the methods in System.DirectoryServices, please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.directoryservices.aspx. And then fetch the user as an UserPrincipal, which will have all the properties. If you extend the UserPrincipal object you can get custom properties typed.

#73746

Aug 07, 2013 16:24

Daniel Ovaska

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I agree with Johan above. Using .NET standard System.DirectoryServices to retrieve additional information about the user is the way to go. Expensive operation so might want to store it in either session or by extending the current user yes...

#73747

Aug 07, 2013 17:27

Hg El

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Thank you... Shall have a look at it!

#73783

Aug 09, 2013 10:19

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Getting info from AD