How to list all the Fields for an Active Directory Object

Question

How do I list all the fields that an Active Directory object contains? I know the most common ones, but would like to enumerate through all the fields and obtain the type of fields and their values...

Answer 1

Here is my complete code - I only put snippets so that the post was not too huge...
Option Explicit
Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2
Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8
Dim adoCommand, adoConnection, adoRecordSet
Dim dtmDate, dtmValue
Dim j
Dim lngBias, lngBiasKey, lngHigh, lngLow, lngValue
Dim objADObject, objClass, objDate, objFile, objFSO, objRootDSE, objShell
Dim pathToScript
Dim strAdsPath, strConfig, strDNSDomain, strHex, strItem, strProperty, strValue
Dim strFilter, strQuery
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
pathToScript = objShell.CurrentDirectory
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(pathToScript & "\TestAD.csv")
' Determine Time Zone bias in local registry.
' This bias changes with Daylight Savings Time.
lngBiasKey = objShell.RegRead("HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\ActiveTimeBias")
If (UCase(TypeName(lngBiasKey)) = "LONG") Then
lngBias = lngBiasKey
ElseIf (UCase(TypeName(lngBiasKey)) = "VARIANT()") Then
lngBias = 0
For j = 0 To UBound(lngBiasKey)
lngBias = lngBias + (lngBiasKey(j) * 256^j)
Next
End If
' Determine configuration context and DNS domain from RootDSE object.
Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
strConfig = objRootDSE.Get("configurationNamingContext")
strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
Set adoCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set adoConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
adoConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
adoConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
adoCommand.ActiveConnection = adoConnection
adoCommand.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM 'LDAP://" & strDNSDomain & "'WHERE objectClass=user'"
adoCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
adoCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE
Set adoRecordSet = adoCommand.Execute
Set adoRecordSet = adoCommand.Execute
adoRecordSet.MoveFirst
Do Until adoRecordSet.EOF
strAdsPath = adoRecordSet.Fields("ADsPath").Value
' Bind to Active Directory object specified.
Set objADObject = GetObject(strAdsPath)
Set objClass = GetObject(objADObject.Schema)
' Write which object is grabbed from AD
objFile.Write(Replace(strAdsPath, ",", ";;;"))
' Enumerate mandatory object properties.
For Each strProperty In objClass.MandatoryProperties
On Error Resume Next
strValue = objADObject.Get(strProperty)
If (Err.Number = 0) Then
On Error GoTo 0
If (TypeName(strValue) = "String") Or (TypeName(strValue) = "Long") Or (TypeName(strValue) = "Date") Then
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & Replace(CStr(strValue), ",", ";;;"))
ElseIf (TypeName(strValue) = "Byte()") Then
strHex = OctetToHexStr(strValue)
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & CStr(strHex))
ElseIf (TypeName(strValue) = "Variant()") Then
For Each strItem In strValue
On Error Resume Next
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & Replace(CStr(strItem), ",", ";;;"))
If (Err.Number <> 0) Then
On Error GoTo 0
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||Value cannot be displayed")
End If
On Error GoTo 0
Next
ElseIf (TypeName(strValue) = "Boolean") Then
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & CBool(strValue))
Else
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||Type:" & TypeName(strValue))
End If
Else
Err.Clear
sColl = objADObject.GetEx(strProperty)
If (Err.Number = 0) Then
For Each strItem In sColl
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & CStr(strItem))
If (Err.Number <> 0) Then
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||Value cannot be displayed")
End If
Next
On Error GoTo 0
Else
Err.Clear
Set objDate = objADObject.Get(strProperty)
If (Err.Number = 0) Then
lngHigh = objDate.HighPart
If (Err.Number = 0) Then
lngLow = objDate.LowPart
If (lngLow < 0) Then
lngHigh = lngHigh + 1
End If
lngValue = (lngHigh * (2 ^ 32)) + lngLow
If (lngValue > 120000000000000000) Then
dtmValue = #1/1/1601# + (lngValue / 600000000 - lngBias) / 1440
On Error Resume Next
dtmDate = CDate(dtmValue)
If (Err.Number <> 0) Then
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||<Never>")
Else
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & CStr(dtmDate))
End If
Else
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & FormatNumber(lngValue, 0))
End If
Else
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||Value cannot be displayed")
End If
Else
On Error GoTo 0
objFile.Write("," & strProperty)
End If
On Error GoTo 0
End If
End If
Next
' Enumerate optional object properties.
For Each strProperty In objClass.OptionalProperties
On Error Resume Next
strValue = objADObject.Get(strProperty)
If (Err.Number = 0) Then
On Error GoTo 0
If (TypeName(strValue) = "String") Then
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & Replace(CStr(strValue), ",", ";;;"))
ElseIf (TypeName(strValue) = "Long") Then
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & Replace(CStr(strValue), ",", ";;;"))
ElseIf (TypeName(strValue) = "Date") Then
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & Replace(CStr(strValue), ",", ";;;"))
ElseIf (TypeName(strValue) = "Byte()") Then
strHex = OctetToHexStr(strValue)
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & CStr(strHex))
ElseIf (TypeName(strValue) = "Variant()") Then
For Each strItem In strValue
On Error Resume Next
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & Replace(CStr(strItem), ",", ";;;"))
If (Err.Number <> 0) Then
On Error GoTo 0
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||Value cannot be displayed")
End If
On Error GoTo 0
Next
ElseIf (TypeName(strValue) = "Boolean") Then
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & CBool(strValue))
Else
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||Type:" & TypeName(strValue))
End If
Else
Err.Clear
sColl = objADObject.GetEx(strProperty)
If (Err.Number = 0) Then
For Each strItem In sColl
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & CStr(strItem))
If (Err.Number <> 0) Then
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||Value cannot be displayed")
End If
Next
On Error GoTo 0
Else
Err.Clear
Set objDate = objADObject.Get(strProperty)
If (Err.Number = 0) Then
lngHigh = objDate.HighPart
If (Err.Number = 0) Then
lngLow = objDate.LowPart
If (lngLow < 0) Then
lngHigh = lngHigh + 1
End If
lngValue = (lngHigh * (2 ^ 32)) + lngLow
If (lngValue > 120000000000000000) Then
dtmValue = #1/1/1601# + (lngValue / 600000000 - lngBias) / 1440
On Error Resume Next
dtmDate = CDate(dtmValue)
If (Err.Number <> 0) Then
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||<Never>")
Else
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & CStr(dtmDate))
End If
Else
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||" & lngValue)
End If
Else
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "|||Value cannot be displayed")
End If
Else
On Error GoTo 0
objFile.Write("," & strProperty & "||| ")
End If
On Error GoTo 0
End If
End If
Next
objFile.WriteLine("")
adoRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop
objFile.Close
' Function to convert OctetString (Byte Array) to a hex string.
Function OctetToHexStr(arrbytOctet)
Dim k
OctetToHexStr = ""
For k = 1 To Lenb(arrbytOctet)
OctetToHexStr = OctetToHexStr _
& Right("0" & Hex(Ascb(Midb(arrbytOctet, k, 1))), 2)
Next
End Function
I have been able to obtain all the Computer, Contact, Group and OU objects without issue with this code...