I've an Active Directory with domain myDomain.local
, under it there exists a Distribution Group
that contains many groups.
How can I read (programmatically) all these subgroups to retrieve a list of their names ?
And how to optimize the query to filter the result so that it just retrieves all the groups that ends with the word Region
?
BTW, I'm using C#.Net, ASP.Net and sharepoint, and i'm not experienced with AD.
Here's the solution I made; for those who are interested:
public ArrayList getGroups()
{
// ACTIVE DIRECTORY AUTHENTICATION DATA
string ADDomain = "myDomain.local";
string ADBranchsOU = "Distribution Group";
string ADUser = "Admin";
string ADPassword = "password";
// CREATE ACTIVE DIRECTORY ENTRY
DirectoryEntry ADRoot
= new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://OU=" + ADBranchsOU
+ "," + getADDomainDCs(ADDomain),
ADUser,
ADPassword);
// CREATE ACTIVE DIRECTORY SEARCHER
DirectorySearcher searcher = new DirectorySearcher(ADRoot);
searcher.Filter = "(&(objectClass=group)(cn=* Region))";
SearchResultCollection searchResults = searcher.FindAll();
// ADDING ACTIVE DIRECTORY GROUPS TO LIST
ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
foreach (SearchResult result in searchResults)
{
string groupName = result.GetDirectoryEntry().Name.Trim().Substring(3);
list.Add(groupName);
}
return list;
}
public string getADDomainDCs(string ADDomain)
{
return (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(ADDomain))
? "DC=" + ADDomain.Replace(".", ",DC=")
: ADDomain;
}