Getting network details from Active Directory in VB script? - vbscript

Question

There are needs when we want to populate user details from Active Directory. Sharing my code to access user details from AD.

Answer 1

Introduction
People often ask for querying active directory by passing network account name or email. There are many articles already available on this, and one might get confused. Here is simple working code to access user detail from active directory database-
Please note in order to access AD, you have to specify valid network account credentials in connection.
function GetADDetails(userId)
Set objConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConn.provider ="ADsDSOObject"
objConn.Properties("User ID") = "domain\userId" 'specify domain and
network account
objConn.Properties("Password") = "password" 'specify network password
objConn.Properties("Encrypt Password") = True
objConn.open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCom = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set objCom.ActiveConnection = objConn
strTarget="GC://abc.com" 'your domain name
objCom.CommandText ="select sn, givenName, sAMAccountName, name,mail,
telephoneNumber FROM '"+strTarget+"' where sAMAccountname='"+userId+"'"
Set objRS = objCom.Execute
If Not (objRS.EOF Or objRS.BOF) Then
GetADDetails=objRS.GetRows
Else
GetUserData = Null
End If
'Close objects and remove from memory
objRS.Close
objConn.Close
Set objRS = Nothing
Set objConn = Nothing
Set objCom = Nothing
end function