I am trying to filter out employees from a specific OU via LDAP.
The problem is that the OU contains spaces.
By itself, with \20 between the respective words, this OU should be resolved and be able to be found.
Furthermore, there is no CN in the respective OU.
What I have tried so far is the following:
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(ou=test\20user\20accounts,dc=lab,dc=local))
Unfortunately I only get an empty output.
The searchbase is missing and i dont know how to implement it in the ldap query.
With Powershell i dont have any issues to get what i want:
Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter "(ObjectClass=user)" -SearchBase "ou=test\20user\20accounts,dc=lab,dc=local" -Properties * |`
? {$_.ObjectCategory -like "cn=Person*" }| select name,objectclass,ObjectCategory | fl
I appreciate any advice :)
Thanks in advance
To search for users in an OU, set the search root of your query (sometimes called Base DN) to the OU. It cannot be done in the filter.
The memberOf attribute is used for groups, not OU's.
You do not supply enough information to make an accurate assessment.
What are you looking for within OU=Test,User,Accounts,DC=Lab,DC=local?
"I wanna get all the members of the OU Test User Accounts"
This should get all "Users" (sAMAccountType=805306368) in the container "OU=Test,User,Accounts,DC=Lab,DC=local" (With some tweaking to fit your server and credentials)
ldapsearch -D "cn=exampleuser,example.com" -w secret -h server.example.com -b "OU=Test,User,Accounts,DC=Lab,DC=local" -s sub "(sAMAccountType=805306368)"
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I am trying to set up dynamic distribution lists at the company I work for.
I want to use the company value in AD for a distribution list that everyone in the company needs to be part of.
Most of our users have the name of the company as the value, but after checking some users it appears that this value is not set for all users.
Is there a way to set this value for all AD users (by using powershell f.e), or get a list of users where the company value is not set to the company name?
You can use the PowerShell ActiveDirectory module, which is included in the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). Details on how to install it are here.
Then you can use Get-ADUser and pipe the results into Set-ADUser. Something like this:
$badusers = Get-ADUser -Filter "company -ne 'Your Company Name'"
$badusers | Set-ADUser -Company "Your Company Name"
You could do this in one line, but I split it into two so you can inspect the $badusers collection to actually see the users that you changed (just type $badusers into the PowerShell prompt and hit enter).
It may be wise to limit it to, say, 5 or 10 users just to make sure it works the way you want before attempting to change every user. You can do this by adding -ResultSetSize 5 to the Get-ADUsers line.
This also assumes you want to change all user objects to have your company name, even administrative accounts. Keep in mind that this will stop processing users if it hits one that you don't have permission to modify. If you want to limit it to a single OU, you can use the -SearchBase parameter of Get-ADUsers, like this:
$badusers = Get-ADUser -Filter "company -ne 'Your Company Name'" -SearchBase "OU=Users,DC=example,DC=com"
I'm trying to create a custom query in ADUaC to help me index administrators in my system. I've narrowed down security groups that I need to list the members of, but I'm misusing the 'memberOf' attribute in some way which breaks the query.
(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=user)(memberOf=*)
The above query works fine to return all users, but the when I change the wildcard to anything else (ex. (memberOf=*Administrators*)), the query returns no objects.
I have confirmed that there is a relevant Security Group for this query to get users from. I am aware that it does not work for Primary Groups or nested users, and I am simply trying to get it working on a basic level right now. Anyone know how to have the code return users that are a member of the security group?
Unfortunately, you cannot use the wildcard * character to filter distinguishedName attributes. The reason for this is the X.500 Standard.
http://www.ldapexplorer.com/en/manual/109010000-ldap-filter-syntax.htm
Perhaps Powershell can be handy. Something like this could do the trick:
#for just one group
get-adgroupmember -Recursive -Identity "domain admins"
#for a batch of groups
$adminsgroups = "Enterprise Admins","Domain admins"
foreach ($admingroup in $adminsgroups)
{
#with the recursive switch you get nested group members
get-adgroupmember -Recursive -Identity $admingroup
}
We currently need to get all users except those that are in the OU "Printers" and "Cameras". We can only use a LDAPFilter for this but everything we tried does not work. Its still give use all users with those in the OU Printers and Cameras. Here what we tried:
Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter "(&(objectClass=user)(!(objectClass=computer))(!(ou=Printers)))" -Properties *
We also tried by doing something like this :
Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter "(&(objectClass=user)(!(objectClass=computer))(!(memberof:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=(CN=MyGroup,OU=Printers,DC=MyDomName,DC=MyDomExt))))" -Properties *
What are we missing? Do we have an error in our syntax?
I am assuming that you have OU=computer and OU=Cameras OUs at within the same search base and there are "users" in both of those OUs.
If you can NOT filter by some other criteria other than the containers they are in, you can not perform a single LDAP query within Microsoft Active Directory to accomplish the task.
If there are no "Users" in those containers you might be able to use:
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user))
or
(sAMAccountType=805306368)
try this
Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter "(&(objectClass=user)(!(objectClass=computer))(!(distinguishedName=*ou=Printers*)))" -Properties *
Currently I can do this in powershell via this script:
Search-ADAccount –LockedOut -SearchBase 'OU=location,OU=country,DC=company,DC=com' | ft Name, SamAccountName, LastLogonDate
I would rather have it in a LDAP saved query, I found this one to display all locked out accounts in the company:
(&(&(ObjectCategory=Person)(ObjectClass=User)(LockoutTime>=1)))
I have tried a number of combinations, but I can't seem to get it right. Here is one of them:
(&(&(ObjectCategory=Person)(ObjectClass=User)(memberof=OU=location,OU=country,DC=company,DC=com)(LockoutTime>=1)))
What am I doing wrong?
As information, when you create a new query, you have the option of specifying the "query root"... by drilling down with that, I was able to achieve the desired goal. I didn't have to modify the query string at all.
I try to get all the members of my domain - using
dsget group "CN=Domain Users,CN=Users,DC=cms,DC=local" -members -expand
But it returns an empty result. How can this be? If I look up the Domain Users in the AD GUI and view its members, I get the full list without problems.
Why is the command not working?
It's just explained by the fact that the member attribute of Domain Users does not contain any user. This group looks like a dynamic group based on a query.