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POHow can I extract the same employeeID attribute value that Outlook is displaying?
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copied!<p>Our company uses ActiveDirectory for various reasons. One of them is to handle Outlook contacts and user log-in IDs.</p> <p>I have written a program to detect the logged in user id, and to search the Active Directory using the extracted login id. The pulled information from the Active Directory is then stored in a database.</p> <p>Here is the code I used to pull ActiveDirectory information data:</p> <pre><code>Dim enTry As DirectoryEntry = _ New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://myCOMPANY/DC=myCOMPANY,DC=myCOMPANY,DC=com") Dim mySearcher As DirectorySearcher = New DirectorySearcher(enTry) mySearcher.Filter = "(&(objectClass=user)(anr=" & thisUser & "))" 'thisUser is the variable holding the Windows ID that is accessing the ASPX page mySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("employeeID") 'just in case I need to do this. Dim resEnt As SearchResult Try For Each resEnt In mySearcher.FindAll() Dim fullname As String = resEnt.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties.Item("cn").Value 'fullname will always pull the right information Dim e_id As String = resEnt.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties.Item("employeeID").Value 'e_id will sometimes be NOTHING, sometimes will contain an ID that ' is different from the one displayed in Outlook Contact Information ' and sometimes it will be matching the employeeID listed in Outlook info Catch ex as Exception Log("Failed to pull AD data: " & ex.Message) End Try </code></pre> <p>For some reason, some users have no values for their employeeID field, and some have.</p> <p>However, all of the users, will display an employeeID value when browsed in Outlook.</p> <p>I designed the following image to help you understand what I am going through. The image is divided into two sections, a section for each CASE.</p> <p>========================================================</p> <p><strong>In Case 1</strong>, the employee has logged in to Windows using his ID: <code>xms33808</code></p> <p>Outlook shows that his Employee ID is <code>16078</code></p> <p>Outlook shows that his email alias is <code>xms33808</code></p> <p>ASP.Net command window shows that his employeeID is <code>xms33808</code>, which is not true</p> <p>======================================================</p> <p>=======================================================</p> <p><strong>In Case 2</strong>, the employee has logged in to Windows using ID: <code>25163</code></p> <p>Outlook shows that his Employee ID is <code>25163</code></p> <p>Outlook shows that his email alias is <code>MutawaAAB</code> </p> <p>ASP.Net command windows shows that his employeeID is <code>NOTHING</code>.</p> <p>=======================================================</p> <p>My question is : How can I extract the same employeeID value information that Outlook is displaying?</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/cOg0b.png" alt="Case 1: employeeID is different from ASP.Net than Outlook"> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rN5q3.png" alt="Case 2: employeeID is found in Outlook, but Nothing in ASP.Net"></p>

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