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How Can I Put New Users in the Same OU as the Person Creating Their Accounts?

November 19, 2004 Nov 19, 2004 11/19/04
ScriptingGuy1
Hey, Scripting Guy! We use a script to create user accounts. How can I modify this script so that it will place the new user in the same OU as the person running the script?-- CB Hey, CB. Interesting question. We’re assuming that you’ve delegated control of Active Directory. User A, for example, has the right to create users in the ...

How Can I Change a User’s Password?

October 15, 2004 Oct 15, 2004 10/15/04
ScriptingGuy1
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change a user’s password using a script?-- GO Hey, GO. You didn’t indicate whether you wanted to change the password for a local user or for an Active Directory user. But that’s OK: the processes are so similar we’ll go ahead and show you how to do both. It’s like getting two Hey, Scripting Guy! ...

How Do I Bind to a User Account in a Sub-OU?

September 17, 2004 Sep 17, 2004 09/17/04
ScriptingGuy1
Hey, Scripting Guy! How do I bind to a user account when the user is in a sub-OU? Code like this doesn’t work: LDAP://CN=Ken Meyer, OU=NA\Human Resources, DC=fabrikam, dc=com.-- RD Hey, RD. The past few days we’ve done some lengthy answers to questions, so we decided to be a little lazy today (hey, it is Friday!) and take an easy one. In ...

Can I Get a List of All My User Accounts?

August 11, 2004 Aug 11, 2004 08/11/04
ScriptingGuy1
Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way to get a list of all the user accounts in Active Directory?-- CB, Fremont, CA Hey, CB. By far the quickest and easiest way to do this is to search Active Directory for all your user accounts. Here’s a sample script that searches the fabrikam.com domain; to search your own domain, just edit the LDAP ...