Getting Objects Out of AD
This is dsquery.exe computer -name <foo>
function Get-ComputerObjects {
param( [string]$name="*" );
$directorySearcher = new-object DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher([ADSI]"LDAP://$env:userDnsDomain");
$directorySearcher.PageSize = 1000;
$directorySearcher.Filter = "(&(objectCategory=computer)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))(name=$name))";
$directorySearcher.FindAll()
}
Comments
- Anonymous
July 24, 2011
This example is fine when the number of objects is under 1000. However you probably want to implement a wrapper method when working with larger results sets. There's a good article with some sample code here: stackoverflow.com/.../can-i-get-more-than-1000-records-from-a-directorysearcher-in-asp-net I've run this code and can confirm it does a very elegant job. It also gives greater control of memory usage during what could be a large search operation.