Code Snippets

In all the times I have spent participating in forum discussions about all sorts of users' questions, I have learnt a great deal from all the participants.

I have decided to post some of the sample codes that I found users were asking for almost all the time to help me keep them in one place and to make it easier for me to share them again and again.

Hope you find them useful.



Get User's E-mail Address from Active Directory

This was something I originally posted on LinkedIn. It retrieves the network user's e-mail address from Active Directory. If no username was passed as argument, the function will retrieve the e-mail address of the currently logged in user.

Public Function GetUserEmail(Optional strCN As String) As String
'Retrieve user's email address from Active Directory
'Source: http://accessmvp.com/thedbguy

On Error GoTo errHandler

Dim objADInfo As Object
Dim objADUser As Object
Dim strArray() As String

Set objADInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")

If strCN > "" Then
    strArray = Split(objADInfo.UserName, ",")
    strArray(0) = "CN=" & strCN
    Set objADUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & Join(strArray, ","))
Else
    Set objADUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & objADInfo.UserName)
End If

GetUserEmail = objADUser.Mail

errExit:
    Set objADUser = Nothing
    Set objADInfo = Nothing
    Exit Function
    
errHandler:
    MsgBox Err.Number & ": " & Err.Description
    Resume errExit

End Function