I want to be able to query the active directory give a list of all groups containing certain words like Users or Administrators below is what i've got so far
PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain);
GroupPrincipal qbeGroup = new GroupPrincipal(ctx);
qbeGroup.DisplayName = "Administrators";
qbeGroup.DisplayName = "Users";
PrincipalSearcher srch = new PrincipalSearcher(qbeGroup);
return srch.FindAll().Select(g => g.Name).ToArray();
This code doesn't even seem to filter out the the Group names that is not Administrators or Users. But anyway what I can't figure out is how to query if the group name contains? and not if group name is equal to and how to do this of multiple strings.
I can do the same thing using DirectoryEntry so I put it here for referance
var groups = new List<string>();
var path = string.Format("LDAP://CN=Users,DC=company,DC=com");
var computerEntry = new DirectoryEntry(path);
if (computerEntry != null)
{
using (computerEntry)
{
var userNames =
from DirectoryEntry childEntry
in computerEntry.Children
where childEntry.SchemaClassName == "Group"
select childEntry.Name;
foreach (var name in userNames)
{
if (name.Contains("Administrators") || name.Contains("Users"))
{
groups.Add(name);
}
}
}
}
return groups.ToArray();