SharePoint 2010 Workflow Active Directory Group Enumeration

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Hi All,

I am working on sending mail via workflow and would like for list inserts by a particular user, say
user1, to send mail to a particular AD group, say TestGroup1. Similarly, for user2 to userN.
Is it possible to determine AD group membership inside a workflow?

Thnaks in Advance,
Naresh.

Posted 21-Dec-11 18:48pm

NareshNemuri

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Short answer is no.

SharePoint user is not the same as an AD user. Of course, SharePoint, if using Windows auth, uses AD to authenticate the Windows user and establish the claim but it creates a SPUser with no information specific to AD. Since you can have multiple authentication mechanisms and claims providers it doesn't make sense to have information specific to one in the SPUser class and it would be impractical for Microsoft, or anyone, to create objects for all possibilities.

You will need to query AD yourself.

Posted 21-Dec-11 19:01pm

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NareshNemuri 22-Dec-11 4:40am

Mr.Mark,is there any possibility of adding email Id of manager in manager's group and sending mail through workflow..so that the mail i can send to user(who adds an item in a list) and that Manager Email ID..

[no name] 22-Dec-11 8:32am

There are a number of ways to do this. As I responded before you can use User Profile to store additional information. If the values are in AD you can query AD directly.

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NareshNemuri · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-22T18:28:00

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I have done this by adding emailId of manager in manager's group which exists in AD and sent mail through workflow..so that the mail can sent to user(who adds an item in a list) and that Manager Email ID..

Posted 22-Dec-11 18:28pm

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[no name] 23-Dec-11 23:25pm

It is very bad form to post a solution to your own question and accept it as the answer