LDAP & Active Directory Searching

[Wetling23]

I know that a particular phone number is assigned to someone in the directory. I tried using dsquery to find it, but I don't know enough about LDAP to find it. Can someone help me?

Thanks.

 

[Allanv]

try this it will give you all the info in AD for you then use find in excel to find the number but the info will be usefull anyway.

paste into notepad and save to filename.vbs - - then run from any machine that has excel on it. no need to ammend it

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Dim ObjWb
Dim ObjExcel
Dim x, zz

Set objRoot = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
strDNC = objRoot.Get("DefaultNamingContext")
Set objDomain = GetObject("LDAP://" & strDNC) '' Bind to the top of the Domain using LDAP using ROotDSE

Call ExcelSetup("Sheet1") '' Sub to make Excel Document

x = 1
Call enummembers(objDomain)


Sub enumMembers(objDomain)
On Error Resume Next
Dim Secondary(20) '' Variable to store the Array of 2ndary email alias''s

For Each objMember In objDomain '' go through the collection

If ObjMember.Class = "user" Then '' if not User object, move on.
x = x +1 '' counter used to increment the cells in Excel

objwb.Cells(x, 1).Value = objMember.Class
'' I set AD properties to variables so if needed you could do Null checks or add if/then''s to this code
'' this was done so the script could be modified easier.
SamAccountName = ObjMember.samAccountName
Cn = ObjMember.CN
FirstName = objMember.GivenName
LastName = objMember.sn
initials = objMember.initials
Descrip = objMember.description
Office = objMember.physicalDeliveryOfficeName
Telephone = objMember.telephonenumber
Email = objMember.mail
WebPage = objMember.wwwHomePage
Addr1 = objMember.streetAddress
City = objMember.l
State = objMember.st
ZipCode = objMember.postalCode
Title = ObjMember.Title
Department = objMember.Department
Company = objMember.Company
Manager = ObjMember.Manager
Profile = objMember.profilePath
LoginScript = objMember.scriptpath
HomeDirectory = ObjMember.HomeDirectory
HomeDrive = ObjMember.homeDrive
AdsPath = Objmember.Adspath
LastLogin = objMember.LastLogin

zz = 1 '' Counter for array of 2ndary email addresses
For each email in ObjMember.proxyAddresses
If Left (email,5) = "SMTP:" Then
Primary = Mid (email,6) '' if SMTP is all caps, then it''s the Primary
ElseIf Left (email,5) = "smtp:" Then
Secondary(zz) = Mid (email,6) '' load the list of 2ndary SMTP emails into Array.
zz = zz + 1
End If
Next

'' Write the values to Excel, using the X counter to increment the rows.

objwb.Cells(x, 2).Value = SamAccountName
objwb.Cells(x, 3).Value = CN
objwb.Cells(x, 4).Value = FirstName
objwb.Cells(x, 5).Value = LastName
objwb.Cells(x, 6).Value = Initials
objwb.Cells(x, 7).Value = Descrip
objwb.Cells(x, 8).Value = Office
objwb.Cells(x, 9).Value = Telephone
objwb.Cells(x, 10).Value = Email
objwb.Cells(x, 11).Value = WebPage
objwb.Cells(x, 12).Value = Addr1
objwb.Cells(x, 13).Value = City
objwb.Cells(x, 14).Value = State
objwb.Cells(x, 15).Value = ZipCode
objwb.Cells(x, 16).Value = Title
objwb.Cells(x, 17).Value = Department
objwb.Cells(x, 18).Value = Company
objwb.Cells(x, 19).Value = Manager
objwb.Cells(x, 20).Value = Profile
objwb.Cells(x, 21).Value = LoginScript
objwb.Cells(x, 22).Value = HomeDirectory
objwb.Cells(x, 23).Value = HomeDrive
objwb.Cells(x, 24).Value = Adspath
objwb.Cells(x, 25).Value = LastLogin
objwb.Cells(x,26).Value = Primary

'' Write out the Array for the 2ndary email addresses.
For ll = 1 To 20
objwb.Cells(x,26+ll).Value = Secondary(ll)
Next

'' Blank out Variables in case the next object doesn''t have a value for the property
SamAccountName = "-"
Cn = "-"
FirstName = "-"
LastName = "-"
initials = "-"
Descrip = "-"
Office = "-"
Telephone = "-"
Email = "-"
WebPage = "-"
Addr1 = "-"
City = "-"
State = "-"
ZipCode = "-"
Title = "-"
Department = "-"
Company = "-"
Manager = "-"
Profile = "-"
LoginScript = "-"
HomeDirectory = "-"
HomeDrive = "-"
Primary = "-"
For ll = 1 To 20
Secondary(ll) = ""
Next
End If

'' If the AD enumeration runs into an OU object, call the Sub again to itinerate

If objMember.Class = "organizationalUnit" or OBjMember.Class = "container" Then
enumMembers (objMember)
End If
Next
End Sub

Sub ExcelSetup(shtName) '' This sub creates an Excel worksheet and adds Column heads to the 1st row
Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set objwb = objExcel.Workbooks.Add
Set objwb = objExcel.ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets(shtName)
Objwb.Name = "Active Directory Users" '' name the sheet
objwb.Activate
objExcel.Visible = True
objwb.Cells(1, 2).Value = "SamAccountName"
objwb.Cells(1, 3).Value = "CN"
objwb.Cells(1, 4).Value = "FirstName"
objwb.Cells(1, 5).Value = "LastName"
objwb.Cells(1, 6).Value = "Initials"
objwb.Cells(1, 7).Value = "Descrip"
objwb.Cells(1, 8).Value = "Office"
objwb.Cells(1, 9).Value = "Telephone"
objwb.Cells(1, 10).Value = "Email"
objwb.Cells(1, 11).Value = "WebPage"
objwb.Cells(1, 12).Value = "Addr1"
objwb.Cells(1, 13).Value = "City"
objwb.Cells(1, 14).Value = "State"
objwb.Cells(1, 15).Value = "ZipCode"
objwb.Cells(1, 16).Value = "Title"
objwb.Cells(1, 17).Value = "Department"
objwb.Cells(1, 18).Value = "Company"
objwb.Cells(1, 19).Value = "Manager"
objwb.Cells(1, 20).Value = "Profile"
objwb.Cells(1, 21).Value = "LoginScript"
objwb.Cells(1, 22).Value = "HomeDirectory"
objwb.Cells(1, 23).Value = "HomeDrive"
objwb.Cells(1, 24).Value = "Adspath"
objwb.Cells(1, 25).Value = "LastLogin"
objwb.Cells(1, 26).Value = "Primary SMTP"
End Sub

MsgBox "Done" '' show that script is complete

 

[Wetling23]

Thanks, that's a handy script to have around, but we have over 1500 user objects and a lot of turn over. The generated list won't be all that useful for too long. That's why I'd like to know how to search the directory for one specific piece of information.

 

[Booty]

I'm sure there's a better way to do it than this, but you could do something like...

dsquery user -name * -limit 0 | dsget user -display -tel | findstr 123-4567

 

[Allanv]

better to have all the info than nothing, and it takes a few moments to run you could shedule it

i use it on a user base of 10k

 

[Wetling23]

Thanks, both of these answers were helpful.