LDAP Query String to determine the mailing list

[cplsplsprogrammer]

Hello All,

I am trying to write a program to get a list of all the customer recepients in my exchange server. I was able to query LDAP and the query I am using is

(|(ObjectClass=organizationalPerson)(ObjectClass=groupOfNames))

It is giving me all the mailboxes and the distribution lists. Can anyone tell me how can i distinguish if it is mailbox or a distribution list?

Thanks,
Ram

 

[cplsplsprogrammer]

I am doing this using C#. Sorry my query is

<LDAP://{0}/{1}>;{2};name,mail,sn,givenName,initials,Company,adspath,rdn;subtree

 

[tsuji]

>...how can i distinguish if it is mailbox or a distribution list?

Just check its class property? In vb(s) it is like this, all to lowercase (lcase) for convenience.
[tt]
select case lcase(obj.class)
case "mailbox"
'do something
case "distribution-list"
'do some other thing
case else
'do some more other thing
end select
[/tt]
In c# it would be something like switch(...) {case "mailbox": ... break; case ... break;...} structure?

- tsuji

 

[tsuji]

Corrections:

"mailbox" and "distribution-list", I meant for "organizationalperson" and "groupofnames" via LDAP, as shown in the query.

- tsuji

 

[cplsplsprogrammer]

Hello tsuji,

Thank you for writting about the mailbox and distirbution-list. Can you please tell me how to write a LDAP query to query the GAL (global address list), like what would be my cn, ou, o values? what i have now is querying just one domain in the GAL. below is my query and ou, o values.....

"cn=recipients,ou=<domain name>,o=<organization name>";

("(|(ObjectClass=organizationalPerson)(ObjectClass=groupOfNames))")
<LDAP://{0}/{1}>;{2};name,mail,sn,givenName,initials,Company,adspath,rdn;subtree


My other question is what would be my query to search for a particular distribution list in the GAL?

Do you know of any resources where I can read from or help me in writting LDAP queries?

Thanks,
Ram

 

[tsuji]

Ram, not sure in C#, I do not have the luck to work with most updated technology and equipment. Here is a down-to-earth practical example to the query in vbs.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;241474

- tsuji