Pull current user's email for support form

[newbeee]

Hello all,

I am very green on asp.net. Learning as I go. What I am trying to do is create a helpdesk support from on our intranet that will send an email to our ticketing system that automatically generates a ticket. I have created a form, and it works, but the issue I am running into is that our ticketing system only recognizes a user's primary smtp address, or the mail attribute from LDAP. All others get thrown out. The form I created has an input field for email address. I already know that users will enter an incorrect email address. I would like for the form to automatically pull the user’s mail attribute from LDAP. The form will be on a intranet website with Anonymous access off and Integrated Windows authentication on. I have attached the files I currently have. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[tkorsano]

hi there,

with that namespace, you will be able to retrieve emails from active directory (or other directory services you might have).

look at this code, which is in this page http://forums.asp.net/t/1100757.aspx

in c# is

//-------------------------------------------
DirectoryEntry entryRoot = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://RootDSE");
string domain = (string)entryRoot.Properties["defaultNamingContext"][0];
string domainpath = "LDAP://" + domain;

DirectoryEntry searchRoot = new DirectoryEntry(domainpath);
DirectorySearcher search = new DirectorySearcher(searchRoot);
search.Filter = "(&(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=person))";

SearchResult result;
search.PageSize = 1000;
SearchResultCollection resultCol = search.FindAll();

for (int counter = 0; counter < resultCol.Count; counter++)
{
result = resultCol[counter];
result.Properties["givenName"][0];
result.Properties["initials"][0];
result.Properties["sn"][0];

}
//------------------------------------

in vb.net, looks like it could be:

'---------------------------------
Dim rootEntry As New DirectoryEntry(ldapServerName, userID, Password)

Dim searcher As New DirectorySearcher(rootEntry)

searcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("cn")

searcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("mail")

'searcher.PropertiesToLoad.AddRange(New String() {"cn", "mail"})

'would also work and saves you some code
searcher.Filter =

"(&(anr=jagjot)(objectCategory=person))"
Dim results As SearchResultCollection
results = searcher.FindAll()

Dim result As SearchResult
For Each result In results
Me.eName.Text = result.Properties("cn")(0)
Me.eMail.Text = result.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties.Item("mail").Value
Me.eEmpNo.Text = result.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties.Item("employeeID").Value
Me.ePhone.Text = result.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties.Item("telephoneNumber").Value
Me.eLocation.Text = result.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties.Item("department").Value
Me.eEtc.Text = result.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties.Item("PhysicalDeliveryOfficeName").Value
Me.eTitle.Text = result.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties.Item("title").Value
Next

'--------------------------------------------------

the vb.net example shows how to get email.
other attributes found for an user in active directory are:

[0]: "homemdb"
[1]: "countrycode"
[2]: "cn"
[3]: "msexchuseraccountcontrol"
[4]: "mailnickname"
[5]: "msexchhomeservername"
[6]: "msexchhidefromaddresslists"
[7]: "msexchalobjectversion"
[8]: "usncreated"
[9]: "objectguid"
[10]: "msexchrequireauthtosendto"
[11]: "whenchanged"
[12]: "memberof"
[13]: "accountexpires"
[14]: "displayname"
[15]: "primarygroupid"
[16]: "badpwdcount"
[17]: "objectclass"
[18]: "instancetype"
[19]: "msmqdigests"
[20]: "objectcategory"
[21]: "samaccounttype"
[22]: "whencreated"
[23]: "lastlogon"
[24]: "useraccountcontrol"
[25]: "msmqsigncertificates"
[26]: "samaccountname"
[27]: "userparameters"
[28]: "mail"
[29]: "msexchmailboxsecuritydescriptor"
[30]: "adspath"
[31]: "lockouttime"
[32]: "homemta"
[33]: "description"
[34]: "msexchmailboxguid"
[35]: "pwdlastset"
[36]: "logoncount"
[37]: "codepage"
[38]: "name"
[39]: "usnchanged"
[40]: "legacyexchangedn"
[41]: "proxyaddresses"
[42]: "userprincipalname"
[43]: "admincount"
[44]: "badpasswordtime"
[45]: "objectsid"
[46]: "msexchpoliciesincluded"
[47]: "mdbusedefaults"
[48]: "distinguishedname"
[49]: "showinaddressbook"
[50]: "givenname"
[51]: "textencodedoraddress"
[52]: "lastlogontimestamp"

i ran queries with system.directoryservices and system.management for active directory and wmi back in 2003 and 2004. i pulled out ou's and groups from active directory, and the really hard part is coming out with ldap expression that goes in .filter property. if you prefer to use sql for active directory, you can use adsi, but it would be as a com object from dotnet.

good luck,

tonci.

[newbeee]

I will hive this a shot, thanks for the info

[newbeee]

well...I guess I am just too green to understand this....



I'm not sure where this all goes.