Query Department field from AD users
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2012年6月14日 16:35I am trying to make a list of all the Department fields that I have populated for users in Active Directory. How would I go about running a query against all the users in AD to pull the Organization\Department field and export that to a file? From the File I could delete the duplicates to have a list of all the available Departments.
- 已移动 Yan Li_Microsoft Contingent Staff, Moderator 2012年6月15日 5:15 (From:General)
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2012年6月14日 18:09
The LDAP syntax query for all users that have a department in AD would be:
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(department=*))
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For example, this can be used with dsquery at the command prompt of a DC:
dsquery * -Limit 0 -filter "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(department=*))" -Attr sAMAccountName department > UserDepts.txt
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The above may word wrap, but it is one line. The -Attr parameter specifies the attributes to output. sAMAccountName is the "pre-Windows 2000 logon" name. You could output distinguishedName instead. The same filter could be used with Joe Richards' adfind, or a VBScript or PowerShell script.
If it helps, I have a VBScript program (and also PowerShell) that prompts for the "base" of a query, the LDAP syntax filter, and a comma delimited list of attribute values to output linked here:
http://www.rlmueller.net/GenericADO.htm
Use the optional /csv parameter to output in comma delimited format (instead of the default table format). The output can be redirected to a text (or csv) file. The PowerShell version is also in the script gallery here:
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Generic-Search-of-Active-0a05b8d0
Richard Mueller - MVP Directory Services
- 已标记为答案 Misha Rudiy 2012年6月15日 16:42
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2012年6月14日 18:55why down you use the get-aduser powershell comlet to query for the information you need?
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2012年6月14日 19:17
Hi,
You can do this with Powershell and ActiveDirectory Module.
Import-Module ActiveDirectory Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties Department|
Where{$_.department -ne $null}|Select Department|Sort-Object -Unique|
Out-File C:\TEMP\Department.txt
Regards,- 已编辑 Yan Li_Microsoft Contingent Staff, Moderator 2012年6月15日 5:19 edit
- 已建议为答案 Yan Li_Microsoft Contingent Staff, Moderator 2012年6月15日 5:19
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2012年6月15日 5:40版主
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2012年6月15日 22:04Thanks Richard. Your method got the job done. I am also interested in the powershell method but it seemed to just return one result.

