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  Get Name Of Commputers Owner From Active Directory

  Apr 08, 2013 05:31 AM|pourdad.daneshmand|LINK

  Hi Friends ,

  I have a paorblem with AD . I can retreieve list of all computers from AD , But I need owner of every computer in AD.

  In the properties of Computers I see Managed By tab . In this tab we set user of computer. for example :

  We have a Computer with V001 name and users of this computer is David Arteta.

  How can I get David Arteta(Owner of V001 computer) from AD in C# or how can I access to managed by information in C# ?

  Thanks.

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  Re: Get Name Of Commputers Owner From Active Directory

  Apr 08, 2013 08:01 AM|smirnov|LINK

  The value must be saved in the managedBy attribute and it should look like

  managedBy=CN=John,OU=Users,OU=company,DC=myDomain,DC=com

  Use LDAP Browser to check it. 

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  Re: Get Name Of Commputers Owner From Active Directory

  Apr 09, 2013 01:50 AM|pourdad.daneshmand|LINK

  Your hint is good.But how can I reteive this value :

  managedBy=CN=John,OU=Users,OU=company,DC=myDomain,DC=com

  I dont now !

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  Re: Get Name Of Commputers Owner From Active Directory

  Apr 09, 2013 02:34 AM|smirnov|LINK

  I guess it must be similar to getting any other attribute. Something like this

  DirectoryEntry searchRoot = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://******");
  DirectorySearcher search = new DirectorySearcher(searchRoot);
  
  search.Filter = ("(objectClass=computer)");
  
  search.PropertiesToLoad.Add("managedBy");
  search.PropertiesToLoad.Add("distinguishedName");
  search.PropertiesToLoad.Add("cn");
  
  SearchResultCollection groups = search.FindAll();
  
  foreach (SearchResult sr in groups)
  {
  	Response.Write(sr.Properties["managedBy"][0].ToString());
  }

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  Apr 09, 2013 03:30 AM|pourdad.daneshmand|LINK

  Hi smirnov

  Thanks for your attention. This code is not work for me.I got a error : your index must be non negative . ---> ["managedBy"][0].ToString()

  But I find This Code from Codekeep :

  public static string[] GetComputerDetails(string Domain, string HostName)
  8        {
  9            try
  10            {
  11                // if the domain is left blank, lets use the default domain
  12                if (Domain.Length == 0)
  13                    Domain = (string)new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://RootDSE").Properties["defaultNamingContext"][0];
  14                
  15                DirectoryEntry Entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + Domain);
  16                DirectorySearcher Search = new DirectorySearcher(Entry);
  17                Search.Filter = string.Format("(&(objectCategory=computer)(cn={0}))", HostName);
  18                SearchResult Result = Search.FindOne();
  19                if (Result == null)
  20                    return null;
  21                else
  22                {
  23                    ArrayList Results = new ArrayList();
  24                    foreach (string Key in ((Hashtable)Result.Properties.PropertyNames.SyncRoot).Keys )
  25                    {
  26                        for (int i = 0; i < Result.Properties[Key].Count; i++)
  27                            Results.Add(Key + "[" + i + "]: " + Result.Properties[Key][i].ToString());
  28                    }
  29                    return (string[])Results.ToArray(typeof(string));
  30                }
  31            }
  32            catch (Exception)
  33            {
  34                return null;
  35            }
  36        }
  
  

  string[] Details = GetComputerDetails("DomainName", "HostName-->meanse Computer Name");
  
  
  Author : Kevin Shuma
  
  Best Regards
  
  P.Daneshmand

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  Re: Get Name Of Commputers Owner From Active Directory

  Apr 09, 2013 08:10 AM|smirnov|LINK

  pourdad.daneshmand

  This code is not work for me.I got a error : your index must be non negative

  That's most likely mean that object has no managedBy property

  Add some check before that 

  if (sr.Properties.Contains("managedBy"))
     Response.Write(sr.Properties["managedBy"][0].ToString());
  else
     Response.Write("No owner");

  Hope this helps.