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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Basic AD User and Group Queries

Find User DN

Many command takes full user DN as option. Below command find user DN those names start with “Smith”. ‘*’ is the wildcard character and can be used anywhere in the string.
dsquery user -name "Smith*"

Find Group DN

Similar to user DN:
dsquery group -name "MyGroup*"

List Users In Group

Use command below to find all users in a given AD security group. Replace <groupDN> with actual group DN.
dsget group <groupDN> -members | find /i "cn=users"

List All Groups Who Is a Member Of

Use command below to find all the group a given AD name belongs to. Replace <DN> with actual user DN or group DN.
dsget user <DN> -memberof

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