DirectoryServices.AccountManagement principalsearcher OR queryfilter

Question

Is it possible with the principalsearcher to create a "OR" queryfilter

I want to search for users containing a searchstring in either the DisplayName or the UserPrincipalName property but when I try I only get results where the searchstring appears in both properties.

Dim domainContext As New PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain)

Dim up As UserPrincipal = New UserPrincipal(domainContext)
up.DisplayName = "*" & searchString & "*"
up.UserPrincipalName = "*" & searchString & "*"

Dim searcher As PrincipalSearcher = New PrincipalSearcher(up)

Dim results As PrincipalSearchResult(Of Principal) = searcher.FindAll

For Each result As UserPrincipal In results

Next

Answer 1

You can use principalsearcher to search for Display or UserprincipalName separately. 

Like results1 for search Dispalyname, result2 for search UserPrincipalName.

Foreach(var result in result2)
{
 if(!result1.Contains(result))
 {result1.Add(result);
  }
}

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