do<\/I> you get a list of all the groups in an OU? Like this:<\/P>Set objOU = GetObject(“LDAP:\/\/ou=Finance,dc=fabrikam,dc=com”)\nobjOU.Filter = Array(“Group”)<\/p>\nFor Each objGroup in objOU\n Wscript.Echo objGroup.Name\nNext\n<\/PRE>\n
We begin by binding to the Finance OU in Active Directory. This, by the way, brings up another question we get asked all the time: how do you bind to an OU that\u2019s inside another OU? For example, suppose the Finance OU was in an OU named NorthAmerica? How would you bind to the Finance OU then<\/I>?<\/P>\n
Wow; that\u2019s two<\/I> easy questions in one day. To bind to a sub-OU all you have to do is specify the complete path to that OU; in other words:<\/P>Set objOU = GetObject(“LDAP:\/\/ou=Finance,ou=NorthAmerica,dc=fabrikam,dc=com”)\n<\/PRE>\nSee how that works? We bind to the Finance OU, which is in the NorthAmerica OU, which is in fabrikam.com. Etc. etc.<\/P>\n
Having made a connection to the OU we then apply a Filter<\/B>, which in this case limits the returned data to group accounts:<\/P>objOU.Filter = Array(“Group”)\n<\/PRE>\nNote that values passed to the filter must be in the form of an array. That might seem silly – an array of just one object? – but this allows us to filter on multiple object types. For example, suppose we wanted to return a list of groups and computers. In that case, we would use code similar to this:<\/P>
objOU.Filter = Array(“Group”, “Computer”)\n<\/PRE>\nFinally, we set up a For Each loop and echo back the name of each item in the collection; thanks to the filter, the only things in the collection will be group accounts. <\/P>\n
Now, if you\u2019ll excuse us, we have to go back to figuring out why sushi – fish that hasn\u2019t been cooked – costs way more than the exact same fish that has<\/I> been cooked. (And, yes, we were going to try to figure out why people would eat raw fish in the first place, but there are some things that are beyond the reach of even great masses of intellectual energy.)<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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