How to get all the AD groups for a particular user?

Question

I checked this post already. But it doesn't answer my question. I want to get all the active directory groups in which a particular user is a member.

I've written the following code. But I'm not able to proceed further as I don't know how to give the filter and how to access the properties.

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        DirectoryEntry de = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://mydomain.com");
        DirectorySearcher searcher = new DirectorySearcher(de);
        searcher.Filter = "(&(ObjectClass=group))";
        searcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("distinguishedName");
        searcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("sAMAccountName");
        searcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("name");
        searcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("objectSid");
        SearchResultCollection results = searcher.FindAll();
        int i = 1;
        foreach (SearchResult res in results)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Result" + Convert.ToString(i++));
            DisplayProperties("distinguishedName", res);
            DisplayProperties("sAMAccouontName", res);
            DisplayProperties("name", res);
            DisplayProperties("objectSid", res);
            Console.WriteLine();
        }

        Console.ReadKey();
    }

    private static void DisplayProperties(string property, SearchResult res)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("\t" + property);
        ResultPropertyValueCollection col = res.Properties[property];
        foreach (object o in col)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("\t\t" + o.ToString());
        }
    }
}

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Just query the "memberOf" property and iterate though the return, example:

            search.PropertiesToLoad.Add("memberOf");
            StringBuilder groupNames = new StringBuilder(); //stuff them in | delimited

                SearchResult result = search.FindOne();
                int propertyCount = result.Properties["memberOf"].Count;
                String dn;
                int equalsIndex, commaIndex;

                for (int propertyCounter = 0; propertyCounter < propertyCount;
                    propertyCounter++)
                {
                    dn = (String)result.Properties["memberOf"][propertyCounter];

                    equalsIndex = dn.IndexOf("=", 1);
                    commaIndex = dn.IndexOf(",", 1);
                    if (-1 == equalsIndex)
                    {
                        return null;
                    }
                    groupNames.Append(dn.Substring((equalsIndex + 1),
                                (commaIndex - equalsIndex) - 1));
                    groupNames.Append("|");
                }

            return groupNames.ToString();

This just stuffs the group names into the groupNames string, pipe delimited, but when you spin through you can do whatever you want with them