Vista - how do i determine the OU structure on the fly ?

Each time i script, i have to hard-code the OU. Is there a method to
determine the AD OU structure on the fly ?

Let me give a scenario:

# generic way to determine ANY ORGANISATION LDAP PATH
$objOU=[ADSI]"LDAP://ROOTDSE"
$OBJOU.defaultNamingContext


Is there similar way like above to determine OU structure ?

On Nov 6, 3:43*am, "IT Staff" <jkk...@newsgroup> wrote:Sorry, could you be more specific??

"Determine the AD OU structure" - of which OU exactly, how?

Martin

Let me be more specific.

In company A, their OU structure could be like this:

OU Country1
OU Computers
OU Users.

In company B, their OU structure could be like this:

OU Dept1
OU Users_Computers

If i write a script for Company A, i hAve to use a regular expression to
detect Company A OU structure.
Similarly if i write a script for Company B, the regular expression used in
Company A cannot be applied to Company B. This means i have to write a
regular expression for Company B.

Is there a "generic" way to determine the OU structure of Two companies,
rather than *hard code" a regular express for Company A and Company B
respectively ?

Still don't know what exactly you want to achieve - OUs are container
objects for OU, therefore you will need to do equivalent of Get-ChildItem
(which can be done) and then have some logic to determine which OU is used
for what - and this is suddenly almost impossible task

You could of course have a logic that will match OU based on some kind of
mask (for example returning first OU that contains work Users or Computers),
however don't think such code would be too useful.

Martin

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