I'm working in .net 2.0 and need to retrieve all the users of a given AD group. I have the following method that does return all the members of the group, but it does not return users that have the passed group as their primary group. What do I need to do to get those users included as well?
/// <summary>
/// Gets the group child users.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="parentGroup">The parent group.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public List<ADUser> GetGroupChildUsers(ADGroup parentGroup)
{
List<ADUser> list = new List<ADUser>();
DirectoryEntry entry = GetDirectoryEntry(LdapBaseString);
DirectorySearcher searcher = new DirectorySearcher(entry);
searcher.Filter = string.Format("(&(objectCategory=person)(memberOf={0}))", parentGroup.DN);
searcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("objectGUID");
searcher.SizeLimit = MaxReturnCount;
SearchResultCollection results = searcher.FindAll();
foreach (SearchResult result in results) {
Guid guid = new Guid((byte[])result.Properties["objectGUID"][0]);
list.Add(GetUserByGuid(guid));
}
if (list.Count <= 0) {
return null;
} else {
return list;
}
}
The primary group of a user is given by primaryGroupID
attribute of a user. In fact primaryGroupID
contains the RID of the primary group in a string format. That's why, I first get the SID of the group you are looking for users, then I compute (badly) the RID, and I search for users with a primaryGroupID
containing the RID.
/* Connection to Active Directory
*/
DirectoryEntry deBase = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://WM2008R2ENT:389/dc=dom,dc=fr");
/* Directory Search for agroup
*/
string givenGrpName = "MonGrpSec";
DirectorySearcher dsLookFor = new DirectorySearcher(deBase);
dsLookFor.Filter = string.Format ("(sAMAccountName={0})", givenGrpName);
dsLookFor.SearchScope = SearchScope.Subtree;
dsLookFor.PropertiesToLoad.Add("cn");
dsLookFor.PropertiesToLoad.Add("objectSid");
SearchResult srcGrp = dsLookFor.FindOne();
/* Get the SID
*/
SecurityIdentifier secId = new SecurityIdentifier(srcGrp.Properties["objectSid"][0] as byte[], 0);
/* Find The RID (sure exists a best method)
*/
Regex regRID = new Regex(@"^S.*-(\d+)$");
Match matchRID = regRID.Match(secId.Value);
string sRID = matchRID.Groups[1].Value;
/* Directory Search for users that has a particular primary group
*/
DirectorySearcher dsLookForUsers = new DirectorySearcher(deBase);
dsLookForUsers.Filter = string.Format("(primaryGroupID={0})", sRID);
dsLookForUsers.SearchScope = SearchScope.Subtree;
dsLookForUsers.PropertiesToLoad.Add("cn");
SearchResultCollection srcUsers = dsLookForUsers.FindAll();
foreach (SearchResult user in srcUsers)
{
Console.WriteLine("{0} is the primary group of {1}", givenGrpName, user.Properties["cn"][0]);
}