Background
I'm creating some SQL to assist with security auditing; this will take security info from various systems databases and from Active Directory and will produce a list of all anomalies (i.e. cases where accounts are closed in one system but not others.
Current Code
To get a list of users who are a member of a security group I run the below SQL:
if not exists(select 1 from sys.servers where name = 'ADSI')
EXEC sp_addlinkedserver 'ADSI', 'Active Directory Services 2.5', 'ADSDSOObject', 'adsdatasource'
SELECT sAMAccountName, displayName, givenName, sn, isDeleted --, lastLogonTimestamp --, lastLogon (Could not convert the data value due to reasons other than sign mismatch or overflow.)
FROM OPENQUERY(ADSI
, 'SELECT sAMAccountName, displayName, givenName, sn, isDeleted
FROM ''LDAP://DC=myDomain,DC=myCompany,DC=com''
WHERE objectCategory = ''Person''
AND objectClass = ''user''
AND memberOf = ''CN=mySecurityGroup,OU=Security Groups,OU=UK,DC=myDomain,DC=myCompany,DC=com''
')
order by sAMAccountName
Problem / Question
I'd like this code to be able to work recursively; i.e. if a user is a member of a group which is a member of the specified group, they should be included too (for the full hierarchy). Does anyone know how to do this through SQL?
UPDATE
I've now resolved a few issues (not related to the quoted problem, but some other issues I'd had).
- lastLogon was throwning an error. This was because the server version was x86. Using an x64 database resolved the problem.
- lastLogon was returned as a number. Added some code to convert this to DateTime2.
- I was able to move the group name out of a hard coded string by making OpenQuery itself dynamic, so within the context of OpenQuery the generated string looks static.
..
--create linked server
if not exists(select 1 from sys.servers where name = 'ADSI')
begin
--EXEC sp_addlinkedserver 'ADSI', 'Active Directory Services 2.5', 'ADSDSOObject', 'adsdatasource'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_addlinkedserver 'ADSI', 'Active Directory Service Interfaces', 'ADSDSOObject', 'adsdatasource'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'collation compatible', @optvalue=N'false'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'data access', @optvalue=N'true'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'dist', @optvalue=N'false'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'pub', @optvalue=N'false'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'rpc', @optvalue=N'false'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'rpc out', @optvalue=N'false'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'sub', @optvalue=N'false'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'connect timeout', @optvalue=N'0'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'collation name', @optvalue=null
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'lazy schema validation', @optvalue=N'false'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'query timeout', @optvalue=N'0'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'use remote collation', @optvalue=N'true'
EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption @server=N'ADSI', @optname=N'remote proc transaction promotion', @optvalue=N'true'
end
declare @path nvarchar(1024) = 'DC=myDomain,DC=myCompany,DC=com'
declare @groupCN nvarchar(1024) = 'CN=My Security Group,OU=Security Groups,OU=UK,' + @path
, @sql nvarchar(max)
--construct the query we send to AD
set @sql = '
SELECT sAMAccountName, displayName, givenName, sn, isDeleted, lastLogon
FROM ''LDAP://' + replace(@path,'''','''''') + '''
WHERE objectCategory = ''Person''
AND objectClass = ''user''
AND memberOf = ''' + replace(@groupCN,'''','''''') + '''
'
--now wrap that query in the outer query
set @sql = 'SELECT sAMAccountName, displayName, givenName, sn, isDeleted
, case
when cast([lastLogon] as bigint) = 0 then null
else dateadd(mi,(cast([lastlogon] as bigint) / 600000000), cast(''1601-01-01'' as datetime2))
end LastLogon
FROM OPENQUERY(ADSI, ''' + replace(@sql,'''','''''') + ''')
order by sAMAccountName'
--now run it
exec(@sql)