Get The Current Logged In User Details In SharePoint 2013 Using SSOM, CSOM, REST API, JSOM And PowerShell

Introduction

In this article we will learn how to fetch the user details of the current logged in user in a SharePoint site. There are multiple approaches by which we can get the logged in details such as User ID, Login Name (Login ID) of the user and the Display Name of the user.

We will look into the following five approaches

1. SSOM
2. CSOM
3. REST API
4. JSOM
5. PowerShell

Let’s take a look at each approach along with the code, one by one.

In SSOM we get the current logged in user to the SharePoint farm

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First we will see how to check the server response on the REST API request by hitting a Simple EndPoint URL on the browser. This EndPoint URL provides all the information about the Current logged in user.

The URL is constructed with the use of CurrentUser as the EndPoint, which returns the User ID, Login Name, Title, etc.

EndPoint URL

<Your Site>_api/web/CurrentUser

Example: http://win-eqalhem27jl:7575/sites/one/_api/Web/CurrentUser

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We can also get the information about the current logged in user by fetching the current logged in user details from the User Information List.

For this approach we need the ID of the current logged in user.

The EndPoint URL for this can be constructed with SiteUserInfoList/items(Curent User ID) as the EndPoint.

EndPoint URL

<your site>_api/web/SiteUserInfoList/items(<your user ID>)?

Example

http://win-eqalhem27jl:7575/sites/one/_api/Web/SiteUserInfoList/Items(8)?$select=ID,Name,Title

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Practical Usage of the EndPoint URLs

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