Searching Novell NDS eDirectory with Powershell

Today we had to search a NDS eDirectory via Powershell script. After some tests and searching the internet we found the following solution.

Note:
When accessing the returned figures in the attributes it is important for the attribute-names to be spelled in lower case! ( $entry[0].attributes[“mail“] )

 

Powershell script to search Novell NDS eDirectory

set-variable “ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE” 2 -op Constant

[reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“system.directoryservices.protocols”) | out-null
$ldapIdentifier = new-object directoryservices.protocols.ldapdirectoryidentifier(“firstattribute.com”)
$ldapConnection = new-object directoryservices.protocols.ldapconnection($ldapIdentifier,$null,0)

[string[]]$attr = “cn”,”mail”

$dn = “o=FIRSTATTRIBUTE”
$filter = “(uid=waniert)”
$scope = $ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE
$searchRequest = new-object directoryservices.protocols.searchrequest($dn,$filter,$ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE,$attr)

$searchRequest.typesonly = $false
$searchRequest.sizelimit = 10
$result = [directoryservices.protocols.searchresponse]$ldapConnection.sendrequest($searchRequest)
$entry = $result.entries

$Name = ($entry[0].attributes[“cn”])[0] $Mail =  ($entry[0].attributes[“mail”])[0]

Write-Host “Name : ” + $Name
Write-Host “Mail : ” + $Mail

 

Searching Active Directory with Powershell

Besides searching eDirectory with PowerShell, there is also a nice article to search Active Directry using Powershell commands:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730967.aspx