Question

Listing ALL Active Directory Attributes / Properties.

Asked by: sarvan

Hi,

I am trying to retrive all the Active Directory attributes / properties through LDAP using .NET directory services.

I have used as follows:

search.Filter = "(SAMAccountName=" + account + ")";
SearchResult result = search.FindOne();

It lists me only following 63 properties.

homemdb
msexchhomeservername
countrycode
cn
lastlogoff
mailnickname
mdbstoragequota
homemta
garbagecollperiod
msexchalobjectversion
usncreated
objectguid
extensionattribute12
mdbusedefaults
whenchanged
memberof
adspath
msexchuseraccountcontrol
extensionattribute3
accountexpires
displayname
primarygroupid
badpwdcount
objectclass
deleteditemflags
instancetype
extensionattribute6
objectcategory
samaccounttype
whencreated
lastlogon
useraccountcontrol
extensionattribute1
extensionattribute15
c
samaccountname
givenname
mail
msexchmailboxsecuritydescriptor
publicdelegatesbl
lockouttime
legacyexchangedn
extensionattribute14
description
msexchmailboxguid
pwdlastset
logoncount
codepage
name
extensionattribute13
usnchanged
proxyaddresses
userprincipalname
badpasswordtime
objectsid
sn
msexchpoliciesincluded
extensionattribute5
distinguishedname
showinaddressbook
textencodedoraddress
lastlogontimestamp
mdboverquotalimit

However it has not listed all the properties we have defined in AD.  for example: canonnicalname, division, fax and so on.

Kindly help me how to retrive ALL the attributes from AD.

Cheers.

Sarvan.

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2006-12-13 at 18:29:46ID22092804
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Answers

 

by: sirbountyPosted on 2006-12-13 at 18:34:34ID: 18136009

cn 'is' the canonical name...so you're actually getting that one.

facsimileTelephoneNumber would be the fax, though I don't see that one in your list, nor division.  
How are you pulling these?

 

by: sarvanPosted on 2006-12-13 at 18:47:46ID: 18136066

Hi sirbounty,

Thanks for your fast feedback.

The property "cn" is not really the "canonicalname"

Just i tried some thing as follows:

search.PropertiesToLoad.Add("canonicalName");
search.PropertiesToLoad.Add("cn");

The value of "cn" is "Saravanamoorthy, Sukumaran"
whereas the value of "canonincalName" is "ASIA.cib/ISAP/Departments/Development/Saravanamoorthy, Sukumaran"

Actually I wanted to get all the AD properites. So, I didn't use "propertiestoload". It should return all the properties when i use the following serach.

search.Filter = "(SAMAccountName=" + account + ")";
SearchResult result = search.FindOne();

cheers.

sarvan


 

by: sirbountyPosted on 2006-12-13 at 20:42:44ID: 18136594

I just noticed this is in the Networking TA, when it should be in one of the programming areas.
What are you coding in?  I can have it relocated to the correct area...

 

by: sarvanPosted on 2006-12-13 at 21:00:44ID: 18136667

hi sirboundy,

i am using visual C# .NET to retrive AD properties. Please relocate my question onto correct area.

Cheers.

sarvan.

 

by: sirbountyPosted on 2006-12-13 at 22:26:02ID: 18136963

sarvan,
I'll be honest, I've just started delving into this myself, but the testing I've been doing over the past couple of hours leads me to believe that it depends on the object you're polling.
For instance, initially, I was finding the same number of properties, 63.
I then did some reading (great article by the way: http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/08/04/activedir.html) and set up an iteration through all properties for each object found (I used FindAll).

Several had 63 or less returned, but I came across one, and it's a user object, that has 97.

Obviously many were the same, but I found some in this list (autoreplymessage, dateofbirth, deliverandredirect, department, homedirectory, logonhours to name a few) that weren't in the one you posted, and some (badpasswordtime, c (not sure what that is?), lastlogoff) that weren't in the list I found.

So, I imagine you'll have to iterate through each object, unless you need to find the number that's common across all  (like I said I had one as low as 57).

I did set my filter up a bit differently,

objSearch.Filter = "(&(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person))"
and I used a subtree searchscope:
objSearch.SearchScope = SearchScope.Subtree

You might also check out that article for additional info.  
You just got me really curious with this question, cause I've started incorporating some directory searches into some of my controls and I 'had' to know...lol...
I'm not sure how much more info I can provide, so if that doesn't help you, perhaps we both can sit back and learn something...best of luck to you!

~sirbounty

 

by: ihenryPosted on 2006-12-15 at 07:36:53ID: 18146676

If memory serves me right, uninitialized or no value attributes will not be loaded into property cache even if you're explicitly loading it using the PropertiesToLoad property. You can get the full list of all attributes of an AD object by loading allowedAttributes attribute and enumerating the values. You can also get the list of modifiable attributes using allowedAttributesEffective.

Henry

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