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I need to retrieve a list of Active Directory users and their attributes using Delphi 2010.

I've seen a few similar questions on SO (e.g. Delphi - Find primary email address for an Active Directory user), but they all seem to require the user name before any additional information can be retrieved.

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I had written an article for [The Delphi Magazine] way back when..... if you have access to a backlog of those magazines, it's in issue no. 62 (October 2000) - unfortunately, it seems those back issues aren't available for purchase anymore :-(

It's too long of an article and a code sample to post here.... basically it's about wrapping the IDirectorySearch interface in a nicer Delphi-like shell. You pass in a base container where to search, you define an LDAP filter, and you define a set of attributes you're interested in - then you search and get back basically an enumerator for the results, which you can get one by one.

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  • Any chance you could post it online somewhere? Just the source code would help a lot. – norgepaul Oct 11 '11 at 15:32
  • Thanks for your help Marc, but I found another answer before I had much time to look into your code. The article was interesting though. – norgepaul Oct 13 '11 at 20:42
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In the end, I discovered TJvObjectPickerDialog, part of JVCL. It wraps the Windows Select Object dialog and does everything I need with very little coding. Just set the required properties and call execute. The selected user objects are returned along with the attributes that you set in the 'Attributes' property.

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    Any chance you could post some code snippets to show others how you did it using TJvObjectPickerDialog rather than leaving them knowing it can be done but not how? –  Nov 08 '11 at 16:37