Fields Commonly Returned by Active Directory

Shiraz Cupala — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:12:40 GMT

When I first tried the Active Directory web service I had no idea what data would be returned. It is critical to know the "Keys" to filter on as described in the How-To posts. Here is the list of the most interesting keys that our intenral ActiveDirectory returns, but your list may be different. The best way to find out what you have to work with is to create the connections, display them as a repeating table, preview and see what you get. For our system the list of keys was the same for both the GetMyInfo and GetUserInfo methods.

Sample list from our internal system:

sAMAccountName - user alias / logon name
sn - surname or last name
givenName - first name
name - user's full name
displayName - name displayed in the address book
streetAddress - street address

l - locality/city name
st - state or province name
postalCode - or zip code in US
c - country 2 letter code

co - country full text

telephoneNumber - main phone
mail - user's actual SMTP email address
homePhone - home telephone number
mobile - mobile or cellular telephone number

The following site reproduces a more complete list with definitions from the MSDN SDK: http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb/AD-gluser.html.

Qdabra Active Directory Web Service

Fields Commonly Returned by Active Directory