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How to get Active Directory Users not in a group.

Asked by OFGemini in .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

Tags: VB.NET, Active Directory, Directory Searcher, Directory Entry

I'm using a directory entry and directory search combination to retrieve all the groups/users from an AD domain.

Right now I'm able to get all the groups then use those group CN's to get all the users within.  However, I can't manage to retrieve the users not currently assigned into an active directory group!

By what means would I go about fetching these users?

Here's what I'm doing right now to get the users contained within the groups.
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Public Function GetGroupUsers(ByVal pGroupCN As String) As ArrayList
        Try
            ' In our entry path we specify we want a group that has Users and is named as the parameter 'pGroupCN'
            Dim entry As New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" & _server & "/CN=" & pGroupCN & "," & _domainPath, _username, _password)
            Dim search As New DirectorySearcher(entry)
            ' For each user in that group, get the 'cn' or common name property of that user and add it to our ArrayList
            Dim users As New ArrayList
            Dim userEntry As DirectoryEntry
            For Each member As Object In entry.Properties("person")
                userEntry = New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" & _server & "/" & member.ToString(), _username, _password)
                users.Add(userEntry.Properties("cn")(0).ToString())
            Next
            Return users
        Catch ex As Exception
            Return Nothing
        End Try
    End Function
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Zones: .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Tags: VB.NET, Active Directory, Directory Searcher, Directory Entry
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