Finding a user's manager record in Active Directory

Question

Using Active Directory, am trying to find the SamAccountName and email of the user’s manager.

I find the logged on user in the AD by search where sAMAccountName = D

Answer 1

(This is a post from old time, but I thought might be useful for others in the community)

You can use string stripping and find it like this:

REPLACE(SUBSTRING(manager, 4, CHARINDEX('OU=', manager)-5), '\', '')

Full working query (just change DOMAIN to your own):

SELECT Top 901 manager, REPLACE(SUBSTRING(manager, 4, CHARINDEX('OU=', 
manager)-5), '\', '')
FROM OPENQUERY( ADSI, 'SELECT manager FROM ''LDAP://DC=DOMAIN,DC=local'' 
     WHERE objectCategory = ''Person'' AND objectClass= ''user''
     AND userprincipalname = ''*'' AND mail = ''*'' AND SN = ''*'' ')