I have email id of the members and I am executing following quesy
The command text is
UserDomain = VBA.Environ("UserDomain")
cmd.CommandText = "SELECT cn, mail, c FROM 'LDAP://" & UserDomain & "' WHERE mail = 'r.khenat#abc.com'"
Above code works well on my machine for me and my teammates, however if I use the same code to get the details of the team mates who are in different domain, I get no information.
Instead of UserDomain, what root value I need to put so that I can get the required information.
Any idea?
I managed to get it done by hard coding the domain names and adding it in an Array. I iterated through array to fetch the required details.
You can only ask a domain for users that belong to that domain, so the current domain you are querying will know nothing about e.g. my email, just as my domain will know nothing about your email.
You can try asking my domain about my email if you want, but you won't have any access to it. In the same way I can try asking your domain about its members but if I have access them your domain has been set up very very badly. Only a properly authorised member of a domain should be able to ask that domain such questions, and them only when logged onto a machine which is also a member of that same domain, and is also connected to it.
So no, the query you want to run will not work, by design.
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I'm trying to create a new User in Active Directory from a VB.NET application. Most fields will be identical to an already existing "template" user, except things like Name, SurName, Email, SamAccountName, etc.
So I want to copy or clone this template User, assign the few fields with a new/different value and then save this new user in Active Directory. I'd like to avoid having to manually assign who-knows how many properties from my template to the new User and maybe forget something along the way..
Is there not a way to do that? I found something about using DirectoryEntry.CopyTo(), but I simply get a "Not implemented" error, and anyway I doubt this is the right direction (Unsure how to use this class together with a UserPrincipal object)
Should I be using a different class than System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal to save my new user in the AD? Do I have the wrong approach?
Any help will be appreciated :)
If you look at the source code for DirectoryEntry.CopyTo, it calls:
newParent.ContainerObject.CopyHere(Path, newName)
And ContainerObject is of the type IADsContainer. If you look at the documentation for IADsContainer.CopyHere, it says (under Remarks):
The providers supplied with ADSI return the E_NOTIMPL error message.
ADSI is "Active Directory Service Interfaces". So the short answer is that it just won't work with AD objects.
There is no way to do what you want. You will have to manually assign each attribute you want to copy.
I'm trying to filter emails on Exchange Web Services using SearchFilter.ContainsSubstring as follows:
sfilter = New SearchFilter.ContainsSubstring(EmailMessageSchema.Sender, EmailAddress, ContainmentMode.Substring, ComparisonMode.IgnoreCase)
MailItems = service.FindItems(Folder.Id, sfilter, view)
Unfortunately this doesn't work, and I don't want to use Queries, because I can't guarantee that I can use features of Exchange Server 2013.
Composing a variety of requests in Fiddler, I can observe that if I remove the last character of the email address, then the filter works, remove the first character instead, works - put them back, broken.
So perhaps it's pedantic, and it has to be a true substring to qualify, so if I change the Containment mode to FullString - it doesn't work, so I can't do anything like a collection with Substring OR FullString.
It looks like I'll be able to do (Substring with last char missing AND Substring with first char missing), but it surely can't be that broken can it?
What can I do to get this to work?
Note that my code is in VB.NET, but I can't imagine that this is the problem.
Cheers,
Mark
I worked out that the IsEqualTo filter works with From/Sender, and it doesn't care about case-sensitivity issues, so it's probably what I should have tried to begin with.
The code to match an email address is:
sfilter = New SearchFilter.IsEqualTo(EmailMessageSchema.From, New EmailAddress(Message.FromAddress))
MailItems = service.FindItems(FailureFolder.Id, sfilter, iv)
I still don't know how to find all emails from users at the same domain though.
More Info:
I really needed to filter by Sender Domain and did that by pulling the entire folder contents down and filtering in .Net code. Even that causes problems.
Basically to keep things quick and tight, I tried to pull all the data with a PropertySet:
New PropertySet(BasePropertySet.IdOnly, EmailMessageSchema.Sender)
Filtering still didn't work, yet email addresses still showed in my list of items view. Well it turns out that the value of Message.Sender contains some kind of ActiveDirecty path in it until you call LoadPropertiesForItems. After LoadPropertiesForItems, it's an email address.
Note that my earlier attempt to filter at the server was scuppered because filtering would have to occur against the ActiveDirectory path style of string.
This is all highly confusing, and not at all user friendly.
If anybody has any idea on how to filter by email domain at the server, let me know!
Mark
What is your goal? Sender isn't a string property, so I'm not surprised that the results are odd with ContainsSubstring. I tried it against Office 365 and it worked, but older versions of Exchange may not be as "smart" about handling this kind of query. Depending on what you're trying to achieve, there may be a better filter.
if(emailSenderList.size() == 1) {
return new SearchFilter.IsEqualTo(EmailMessageSchema.From, emailSenderList.get(0));
}
return new SearchFilter.SearchFilterCollection(LogicalOperator.Or, emailSenderList.stream().map(em -> new SearchFilter.IsEqualTo(EmailMessageSchema.From, em)).toArray(SearchFilter.IsEqualTo[] :: new));
I want to setup the following url in my MVC4 website, using the user's full name in the url:
http://www.myapp.com/profile/steve-jones
I have setup the following route in Global.asax:
routeCollection.MapRoute(
"profile", "profile/{userName}",
new { controller = "myController", action = "profile", userName = string.Empty
});
And I can take the parameter 'steve-jones' and match it to a user with matching name. My only problem though is, what if there is more than one 'Steve Jones', how can I handle this?
Does anyone know of a workaround/solution to this so that I can use a user's full name as part of the url and still be able to retrieve the correct user in the controller method?
Am I forced into including the user's id with the url (something that I do not want to appear)?
The usual way of handling this is by appending a number when creating the profiles. So if "steve-jones" is already a name in the database, then make the user's display name "steve-jones2". You basically have to insist that all profile urls are unique, which includes updating any existing database and account creation code.
Alternatively (and/or additionally), if two same names are found then have the script reroute to a disambiguation page where the user is presented with links and snippet of profile info of the many existing Steve Joneseses so they can go to the full correct profile.
Another way of handling it is by giving all user profiles an additional numeric code on the end. At my university all logins are based on name, so they give everyone pseudo-random 3-digit extensions so that they are safe as long as they don't get 1000 people with the exact same names :)
Some people might be happier being steve-jones-342 if there is no steve-jones or steve-jones1, if you're concerned.
I want a vb.net function. We give domain name, it gives the name servers and the IP.
What would the code be?
I know I can use webclient to scrap various whois sites. They don't like that and put password. I want the "good" way to do it.
Say google.com's name server is ns1.google.com I want to know what's the name server of google.com.
For example:
If we go to http://who.is/whois/google.com/
We will see that google.com has ns1.google.com ns2.google.com ns3.google.com and ns4.google.com
I want a function say FindNS("Google.com") to yield "ns1.google.com"
System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry("ns1.google.com").AddressList;
This will return an array of all IPs linked to the hostname you provide.
You can check here:
https://labs.aweber.com/docs/code_samples/subs/create
The script to add a new subscriber to the list via api requires those two pieces info...only I cannot figure out for the life of me what those two variables are!! I've beaten through every little aspect of my Aweber Subscriber Account, AND my Aweber Labs account...and I can't find any reference to either of those variables anywhere. I've submitted some tickets to them, and haven't gotten any response yet.
Does anyone have any ideas here? I've tried my account names, my list names, to no avail!
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Okay, I've got it! You can get the values of both of these variables by dumping some other variables in the aweber api after making certain api calls.
get the account id first:
$account = $aweber->getAccount($accessKey, $accessSecret);
then vardump or print_r $account.
next we get the list id:
$account = $aweber->getAccount($accessKey, $accessSecret);
$list_url = 'https://api.aweber.com/1.0/accounts/<id>/lists';
$lists = $account->loadFromUrl($list_url);
then vardump or print_r $lists.
And you are all set! I'm so happy I figured this out, it freakin took long enough. Hopefully this saves some one a bit of time.
I too have agonized over finding the $list_ID, so went to deactivate the list, and create a new one, and "discovered" that if you hover over the Deactivate button, you get a url you can copy, and this gives both %account and %list Ids
https://www.aweber.com/users/lists/deactivate/$accountID/$lisID
like this....
https://www.aweber.com/users/lists/deactivate/123456/123456
Hopefully this will help make someone as it is a super easy solution
The proper answer is Anne Allen's one, but...
Check the return of the /accounts endpoint. It should return the same account id as you detected in the link, but I had cases they were different (strange, isn't it?). Use the account id returned by the /accounts endpoint and other endpoints to retrieve lists, subscribers, etc. will start to work. It's like if some accounts have two ids, one partially works and the other fully works.
Let me tell you how to get $list_id value... login into your AWeber account and then create a new list copy only integer value from list's name.
At first, login.
1) click Reports>Settings. Your account ID will be displayed in the box,example: ?id=XXXXX
2) click List Options>List Settings. There you will see the list ID under the name.
p.s. To add subscriber, you can use this - Automatically add into aweber list