Re: Pulling Fields from LDAP

From: Marc Scheuner (mscheuner_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 08:12:55 +0200

>I would like to pull what I believe is the NT telephone number (General Tab on AD). I know this is an ADSI pull, but am I on the right track?

You could do it this way, yes - but if you want to phone number,
you'll have to specify it in the .CommandText !

>Sub CheckForUser(strUserName)
>objCommand.CommandText = "<LDAP://dc=xxxxxxx,dc=ins>;(&(objectCategory=User) (email=*)(samAccountName=" &strUserName& "));sAMAccountName,distinguishedName;subtree"

If you want the "phone", you have to add it to the list of attributes
to retrieve:

>objCommand.CommandText = "<LDAP://dc=xxxxxxx,dc=ins>;(&(objectCategory=User) (email=*)(samAccountName=" &strUserName& "));sAMAccountName,distinguishedName,phone;subtree"

Then, once you have the user, you will need to access the phone
attribute like any other attribute you've been selecting:

> If objRecordset.RecordCount <> 0 Then
> strsAMAccountName = objItem.Get("sAMAccountName")
> strTelephone = objItem.Get("phone")

Does this work?? (I'm not very fluent in VBScript.......)

>Also, is there a good documentation reference, that I can purchase?

What are you looking for?? A general AD programming guide? A AD
scripting guide?

Here are some recommendations:

Robbie Allen - Active Directory Cookbook
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596004648/qid=1086242916
Contains a lot of "how to" scripts and information - very highly
recommended

Inside Active Directory: A System Administrator's Guide
by Sakari Kouti, Mika Seitsonen
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201616211
General purpose book on AD, with quite some technical insight

Active Directory Programming
by Gil Kirkpatrick (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672315874
Very detailed, real programming, excellent tutorial book

Windows NT/2000 ADSI Scripting for System Administration
by Thomas Eck (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1578702194
Scripting / sys-admin oriented book, excellent stuff in there, too

HTH
Marc
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Marc Scheuner May The Source Be With You!
Bern, Switzerland m.scheuner(at)inova.ch

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