batch files: getting information from your Windows AD
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/13
If you have the Windows Server Resource Kit tools installed, then dsget and dsquery can get you some valuable information about the current user and computer.
Below is a sample batch file that shows that dsquery gets you [Wayback/Archive] DNs, and dsget gets you detailed information for a certain type of DN.
You can use pipes (and sometimes you need to [Wayback/Archive] escape the pipes) to pass information from dsquery to dsget.
dsget will happily accept multiple DNs (each on a new line), so you can use text-files with DNs too.
@echo on
:: this assumes that dsquery, dsget, etc are in the same directory as the batch file
::escape pipe with caret
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('%~dp0dsquery user -samid %USERNAME% ^| %~dp0dsget user -desc ^| find /V "dsget succeeded"') do (
set description=%%a
)
::trim last two spaces
if "%description:~-2%"==" " set description=%description:~0,-2%
echo !%description%!
–jeroen
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