Vista - Quest AD help

Looking for the Quest PS code to query a group in AD
(LDAP://cn=accountants,ou=city,ou=com) and pull first name, last name,
display, and email address. Im looking while this is posted, just any help
while Im under a deadline would be greatly appreciated. Thank!

I never heard of the Quest Directory Service but since it speaks LDAP the
following should get you in the right directory. In your case you'll need to
change the ADSI moniker to your name space as well as the filter


## Access the AD using the underlying DirectoryServices .Net class
## this allows you to do everything about including to enumerate
## the container you're in much like DIR does.
##
##
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...rs(vs.71).aspx
##
$root = 'LDAP://OU=Enterprise, OU=NextGen DC=Continuum, DC=local'
$searcher = new-object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher($root)
$searcher.filter = "(&(objectClass=user)(cn=*Picard)"
$searcher.findall() | % {$_.path}



"Ian_1" wrote:

Sorry, your script doen't not work. I should not have been specific to just
Quest. It can be WMI, or .NET, or utilizing the ADSI accelerator, etc, it
really doesn't matter. Since this is the point of scripting to make life
simple, surely it's as easy as ? (still researching)

How bout this.

$group = [ADSI]"LDAP://cn=accountants,ou=city,ou=com"
foreach($member in $group.member)
{
$user = [ADSI]"LDAP://$member"
Write-Host ("First Name:{0}" -f ($user.givenName).ToString())
Write-Host ("Last Name:{0}" -f ($user.sn).ToString())
Write-Host ("Display Name:{0}" -f ($user.Displayname).ToString())
Write-Host ("Email:{0}" -f ($user.mail).ToString())
Write-Host
}

"Ian_1" <fakeaddy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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You are quite correct on both accounts

It is not hard; but I won't say that it's easy unless you are at least some
what acquainted with the .NET Directory Services classes.

The code I posted did not work I'm not sure why it didn't return an error
but thats an adventure for another day.

When I cut and pasted my code into the reply I missed the [ADSI] type so the
constructor never got constructed or should I say the [ADSI] ctor didn't.
What you got back was a STRING.

Add one very small change

$root = [ADSI] 'LDAP://OU=Enterprise, OU=NextGen DC=Continuum, DC=local'
$searcher = new-object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher($root)
$searcher.filter = "(&(objectClass=user)(cn=*Picard)"
$searcher.findall() | % {$_.path}

Again you must changes the moniker to reflect your DS namespace.

Here is one other URL which I found using MSN Live it's at the top of the
list and was one of the pages I used to learn about ADSI

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tec...l/default.aspx

thx
bob

"Ian_1" wrote:

It should at least error... It work perfectly for me.
What is $error?

"Ian_1" <fakeaddy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Strangely, I copy and paste that, save as a PS1 and run it - it does nothing.
I've chaged OU's and CN's - nothing. It just acts like I've pressed enter.
Weird.

"Brandon Shell" wrote:

What is with "(cn=*Picard)" -- Im not looking for any certian user, but I
tried it both with it and without it for us. I need a list of users in a .CSV
format - firstname, lastname, middle initial, email address.. Thanks

Here's the error I got Bob:
An error occurred while enumerating through a collection: The
(&(objectClass=user)(cn=*picard) search filter is invalid
...
At C:\scripts\Ad_Connection2.ps1:4 char:1
+ $ <<<< searcher.findall() | % {$_.path}




"Bob Landau" wrote:

Like I wrote Brandon, it does nothing, just goes from one line to the next:

PS C:\scripts> C:\scripts\All_Test.ps1
PS C:\scripts>

#ALL Test
$group = [ADSI]"LDAP://OU=USERS,DC=domain,DC=NET"
#$group = [ADSI]"LDAP://CN=ALTX.Data.Maint,OU=Distribution
Lists,OU=CH,DC=echristus,DC=NET"
foreach($member in $group.member)
{
$user = [ADSI]"LDAP://$member"
Write-Host ("First Name:{0}" -f ($user.givenName).ToString())
Write-Host ("Last Name:{0}" -f ($user.sn).ToString())
Write-Host ("Display Name:{0}" -f ($user.Displayname).ToString())
Write-Host ("Email:{0}" -f ($user.mail).ToString())
Write-Host
}

$group is suppose to be the DN of group, not a OU/CN.

"Ian_1" <fakeaddy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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