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Get LDAP Full Name from LDAP username

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This function is very rough and right now is hard coded to return the common name. This can be useful if, for example, you have a list of usernames in Excel and you want to get the name of the person. However, it can be used in any VBA application.

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  1. Function getLDAPName(clockNumber As String)
  2.     '
  3.     'Declare Variables
  4.     Dim objAdoCon, objAdoCmd, objAdoRS
  5.     Dim objUser, objRootDSE
  6.     Dim strDomainDN, strUserFullName
  7.     Dim intAnswer As Integer
  8.     On Error GoTo Err_NoNetwork
  9.     ' Get current logged in user name
  10.     'strUserFullName = Environ("UserName")
  11.  
  12.     ' Get the DN of the user's domain
  13.     Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://rootDSE")
  14.     strDomainDN = objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
  15.  
  16.     ' Search the domain for the user's account object
  17.     Set objAdoCon = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
  18.     objAdoCon.Open "Provider=ADsDSOObject;"
  19.  
  20.     Set objAdoCmd = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
  21.     Set objAdoCmd.ActiveConnection = objAdoCon
  22.  
  23.     objAdoCmd.CommandText = _
  24.       "SELECT ADsPath FROM 'LDAP://" & strDomainDN & "' WHERE " & _
  25.       "objectCategory='person' AND objectClass='user' AND " & _
  26.       "sAMAccountName='" & clockNumber & "'"
  27.  
  28.     Set objAdoRS = objAdoCmd.Execute
  29.  
  30.     ' If found, get the displayName attribute.
  31.  
  32.     If (Not objAdoRS.EOF) Then
  33.       Set objUser = GetObject(objAdoRS.Fields("ADsPath").Value)
  34.  
  35.       'Get common name
  36.       objUser.GetInfoEx Array("CN"), 0
  37.       commonName = objUser.Get("CN")
  38.  
  39.       'get first name
  40.       objUser.GetInfoEx Array("givenName"), 0
  41.       firstName = objUser.Get("givenName")
  42.  
  43.       'get last name
  44.       objUser.GetInfoEx Array("SN"), 0
  45.       lastName = objUser.Get("SN")
  46.  
  47.       'get display name
  48.       objUser.GetInfoEx Array("DisplayName"), 0
  49.       DisplayName = objUser.Get("DisplayName")
  50.  
  51.       Set objUser = Nothing
  52.       getLDAPName = commonName
  53.  
  54.     Else
  55.       ' handle "not found" error here
  56.      GoTo Err_NoNetwork
  57.     End If
  58.  
  59.     Set objAdoRS = Nothing
  60.     Set objAdoCmd = Nothing
  61.     objAdoCon.Close
  62.     Set objAdoCon = Nothing
  63.  
  64.     Set objRootDSE = Nothing
  65.     Set WshNetwork = Nothing
  66.     GoTo Exit_Sub
  67.  
  68. Exit_Sub:
  69.         Exit Function
  70.  
  71. Err_NoNetwork:
  72.         getLDAPName = "Error"
  73.         GoTo Exit_Sub
  74. End Function

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