DirectorySearcher - Filter for wildcards

[Jase]

I am trying to make a short list of users matching a wildcard (eg : any
usernames that contain 'ab')

From what i can currently see the only way is to pull back all records and
then cycle through them doing a compare.
Unforuently this is dealing with around 9,000 records, so it adds a lot of
delay.

any known ways of applying a filter on
(Name/sAMAccountName/givenName/description) etc that coutain a string ?

[Richard Mueller [MVP]]

Jase wrote:

You can use the "*" wildcard character in an LDAP query. For example:

(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(givenName=*ab*))

This will work for the attributes you list. However, wildcards cannot be
used with DN attributes, like distinguishedName or memberOf. It's best to
use "*" only at the end of strings. Using "*" at the beginning or in the
middle requires more processing, but it can be done, and is still probably
faster than returning more records.

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Richard Mueller
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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[Jase]

Thanks Heaps

It did the job

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