Get Current User's Department Name and Manager From Active Directory

Question

How the "department name" and "manager" attribute value could be retrieved from active directory programmatically? For ex. i will have custom newform.aspx to create some new item, in the code-behind of the custom newform.aspx i have to send email to the manager of the current user, and log the department name. So sharepoint designer activities is not suitable for my case.

Answer 1

The below code access current user's department and manager from AD:

    SPSite _site = SPContext.Current.Site;
   ServerContext serverContext = ServerContext.GetContext(_site);
   UserProfileManager myUserProfile = new UserProfileManager(serverContext);
   UserProfile currentUserProfile = myUserProfile .GetUserProfile(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name);

   string departmentName = (string)currentUserProfile["department"].Value;
   string managerName = (string)currentUserProfile["manager"].Value;
   _site.RootWeb.Dispose();
   _site.Dispose();

The other way to do this is to use DirectoryEntry and DirectorSearcher class:

1. Get user details from Active Directory

2. How to get user data from Active Directory

3. All operation on AD using C#

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Converting string to SPUser

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string managerName = (string)currentUserProfile["manager"].Value;

SPFieldUserValue _spUserValue = new SPFieldUserValue(myWeb, managerName);

SPUser myUser = _spUserValue.User;

Note: myWeb is the object of SPWeb class

Example:

SPSite _site = SPContext.Current.Site;
SPWeb myWeb = _site.OpenWeb();

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Kindly note that ServerContext Class has been deprecated and replaced with SPServiceContext below is the updated Code

 using (SPSite site = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb.Url) )
                                {
                                        SPServiceContext context = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);
                                        UserProfileManager profileManager = new UserProfileManager(context);

                                        UserProfile currentUserProfile = profileManager.GetUserProfile(item.ClaimID);
                                        item.Department = Convert.ToString(currentUserProfile[PropertyConstants.Department].Value);
                                        item.Email =Convert.ToString(currentUserProfile[PropertyConstants.WorkEmail].Value) ;
                                        //string managerName = (string)currentUserProfile["manager"].Value;

                                }