AD Account Status

[jstevens]

I'm using "GetAdsProp" to obtain LDAP Attiributes. Is it possible to obtain the status of a User's Active Directory account to determine whether it is disabled or not?

Thanks for your assistance,
John

[HansV]

GetAdsProp is not a standard function. Are you referring to Query Active Directory from Excel?

[jstevens]

Yes

Regards,
John

[jstevens]

Hans,

I found this code on-line

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Function GetStatus(ByVal SearchField As String, ByVal SearchString As String) As String
'Get the domain string ("dc=domain, dc=local")
Dim strDomain As String
Dim ReturnField As String
strDomain = GetObject("LDAP://rootDSE").Get("defaultNamingContext")
ReturnField = "distinguishedName"

'ADODB Connection to AD
Dim objConnection As ADODB.Connection
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConnection.Open "Provider=ADsDSOObject;"

'Connection
Dim objCommand As ADODB.Command
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection

'Search the AD recursively, starting at root of the domain
objCommand.CommandText = _
";(&(objectCategory=User)" & _
"(" & SearchField & "=" & SearchString & "));" & SearchField & "," & ReturnField & ";subtree”"

'Recordset
Dim objRecordSet As ADODB.Recordset
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute

If objRecordSet.RecordCount = 0 Then
        GetStatus = "not found" 'no records returned
Else
    
    Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & objRecordSet.Fields(ReturnField))
    If objUser.AccountDisabled = True Then
        GetStatus = "Disabled" 'return value
    End If
        
    If objUser.AccountDisabled = False Then
        GetStatus = "Enabled"  'return value
    End If

End If

'Close connection
objConnection.Close

'Cleanup
Set objUser = Nothing
Set objRecordSet = Nothing
Set objCommand = Nothing
Set objConnection = Nothing

End Function

and it is encountering a run-time error when "Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute"

I'm not sure why. Although I expect it is how I fill in the variables such as:

Msgbox = GetStatus("mail","yourEmailAddress@something.com")

Thanks for taking a look at this,
John

[HansV]

Sorry, this is completely outside my field.

[HansV]

I have moved this thread to the VBA forum because it is not specific to Excel.

[jstevens]

I have developed a means of obtaining the "FullName" of an Active Directory Account through a Function. What I would like to do is pass the contents of an myArray to the code. My challenge is noted in the code below.

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Function ListMembers(strDomainName As String, strUserName As String)
    Dim objUser As Object
    Dim myArray
    
    Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & strDomainName & "/" & strUserName)
    
    myArray = Array("FullName", "Name", "AccountDisabled", "Description", "IsAccountLocked", "LastLogin", "PasswordExpirationDate", "PasswordRequired")
    
        For k = LBound(myArray) To UBound(myArray)
    
            MsgBox objUser.FullName   'Works
            
            MsgBox objUser & "." & myArray(k)  'Challenge is here

        Next k

End Function

Thanks for your suggestions,
John

[HansV]

I can't test it myself, but try

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        For k = LBound(myArray) To UBound(myArray)
            MsgBox objUser.Get(myArray(k))
        Next k

[jstevens]

Hans,

Thank you for the suggestion, it worked.

A little less than 4 hours to go and I can depart a "Happy Camper".

Regards,
John