Re: Getting the UPN of the currently logged on user
From: Carlos Galavis (cgalavis)
Date: 09/22/04
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:02:55 -0400
The function GetUserNameEx allows you to specify the format in which you
want the user name (pass "NameUserPrincipal " in the "NameFormat"
parameter). This API is only included in Windows 2000 and up.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/getusernameex.asp
-Carlos
"Colm Smyth" <Colm Smyth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a VB program which checks the currently logged on user against a
table
> of usernames. The program acts accordingly dependant on whether it finds
the
> username in the table.
>
> Up until now I have been using the environment variable "Username" to
> retrieve the username. This has been working fine.
>
> Recently our client has switched their logins to a UPN format i.e.
> <first>.<last>@<domain>. The problem is that this is not being stored in
the
> environment variable, instead the old username is being stored there (that
is
> the pre Win2k account name)
>
> The client is adamant that I must pick up the name typed into the windows
> login dialog and not the environment variable. I imagine that I need to
get
> the UPN of the currently logged in user. Does anyone know how this can be
> done?
>
> I have tried the GetUserNameA function from the windows API but this still
> returns the pre Win2k username.
>
> Many thanks, Colm
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