Getting Sid from PeoplePicker

Question

I'm trying to get Sid values for picker entities.. PickerEntity does not have any Sid field..

I can check every PickerEntity find the type (i.e. user, group) then load SPUser etc to get the Sid.

Is there an cleaner way to get Sid's from PickerEntities ?

thanks!

Answer 1

Something like this should do the trick:

ServerContext ctx = ServerContext.GetContext("Litware SSP");
UserProfileManager mgr = new UserProfileManager(ctx);

PickerEntity selectedEntity = (PickerEntity)PeopleEditor1.ResolvedEntities[0];
UserProfile profile = mgr.GetUserProfile(selectedEntity.Key);

string selectedSid = profile["SID"].Value.ToString();

Read the post PeopleEditor Control for details.

Answer 2

The GetUserInfo operation of the UserGroup.asmx web service contains the SID that can be parsed out if you can utilize that.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xml>
<GetUserInfo xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/"><User IsDomainGroup="False" IsSiteAdmin="False" Notes="" Email="myemail@mydomain.com" LoginName="domain\alexandere" Name="Pirate, Eric" Sid="S-1-5-21-2072177302-1958620249-3085007271-234531" ID="1"/>
</GetUserInfo>
</xml>

Meaning that after a user is selected from the people picker, you can use that value to call the web service to retrieve the SID.