Environment Variable for a users full name.

[Stuart_C]

I was wondering if there was a variable for a users full name?

I want to add a users full name into the reg key for the office user at login. I've been playing and I've used GP Preferences to replace the current value of

CU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo\UserName with %USERNAME%

 

This works and is OK, but would be much better if I could pick a users "Name" (e.g John S. Smith)

[Richie1972]

No, there isn't.

Type set from a cmd prompt and it'll show you all the current environment variables.

Your only option, really, is going to be to use a vbscript that queries active directory for the value

[Stuart_C]

Rubbish... better head over to the scripting forum and see if someone can tell me how to do that then.

My VBS skills are best described as "poor"

[ajbritton]

It is possible to get this info from CMD using the following;

 

@echo off
for /f "tokens=2*" %%a in ('net user "%Username%" /domain ^| find /i "Full Name"') do set DisplayName=%%b
echo Your display name is "%DisplayName%"

 

above code from this Experts Exchange post

 

Alternatively, using VB, the following code (although not tested as I wrote at home), should get the full name (aka DisplayName) into the strFullName variable for you. You then have the fun job of writing it to the registry using WMI if you insist on using VB.

 

Set objSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")
strUser = objSysInfo.UserName
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUser)
strFullName = objUser.Get("displayName")
MsgBox strFullName