If the intention is to look at the "department" attribute of user objects, then the following would do it:
dsquery user -limit 0 | dsget user -dept | sort -u Sort.exe that I use is part of GNU utilities for Windows: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ Guy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 3:53 PM To: 'Krenceski, William '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '; '[email protected] ' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Need AD Query Suggestion Please How are the departments represented in AD? -> OUs, groups, something else? Cheers #JORGE# -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: 5/24/2005 2:39 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] Need AD Query Suggestion Please Hello, I am looking for a query or script that will go out and query all departments in active directory (the easy part) AND I want to suppress duplicates as to get a list of unique departments. Not caring about displaying the users or anything else with the query. William Krenceski Network Administrator Olean General Hospital 515 Main Street Olean, NY 14760 Tel: 716-375-6475 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this message may be legally privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any release, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error please notify the author immediately by replying to this message and deleting the original message. Thank you. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
