Get users samAccountName

[antmar904]

Hello again.

I am trying to get a list of users samAccountName by their Display Name which is most likely last name comma space first name.  Is this possible with the AD UDF?

Exp:

LastName, FirstName

[benched42]

Take a look at water's excellent AD.au3 UDF. You can do pretty much anything with it within Active Directory.

[antmar904]

I've been using it for a while now however I can't seem to get this to work by using a users display name to get their samaccountname

[JLogan3o13]

Once again, not looking very hard. Very first example of _AD_GetObjectProperties shows you how to get a user's properties. You can then easily find the SAMAccountName...

#include <AD.au3>

_AD_Open()

Global $aProperties[1][2]
$aProperties = _AD_GetObjectProperties(@UserName, "sAMAccountName")
_ArrayDisplay($aProperties, "Active Directory Functions - Example 1 - Properties for user '" & @UserName & "'")

_AD_Close()

 

[antmar904]

The only attribute I have to work with is the user's display name which is not working for me.

#include <AD.au3>

;Make a connection to AD
Local $AD = _AD_Open()

Local $samAccountName = _AD_GetObjectAttribute("Test User", "samAccountName")
If @error Then Exit ConsoleWrite("ERROR " & @error & " Extended " & @extended)
MsgBox(0, "", "LanID: " & $samAccountName)

_AD_Close()

 

Edited September 13, 2018 by antmar904

[JLogan3o13]

Example 3 in _AD_GetObjectsInOU:

#include <AD.au3>

_AD_Open()

Global $aProperties[1][2]
$aProperties = _AD_GetObjectsInOU("", "(ANR= Billy Madison)", 2, "sAMAccountName, displayname", "displayname")
_ArrayDisplay($aProperties)

_AD_Close()

 

[water]

As JLogan3o13 statet you have to use function _AD_GetObjectsInOU as the display name does not have to be unique.
For performance reasons I would try (untested):

#include <AD.au3>

_AD_Open()

Global $aProperties[1][2]
$aProperties = _AD_GetObjectsInOU("", "(&(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user)(displayname=Billy Madison))", 2, "sAMAccountName, displayname", "displayname")
_ArrayDisplay($aProperties)

_AD_Close()