Bite me, Joe.
:P
Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT
Microsoft MVP - Active
Directory
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
I
thought you would think that was a good thought. But you have a good point to
counter that good thought. I should submit something, I wouldn't mind being in
the acknow..... err wait a minute. How about this, people who are already in
it can submit something and pick one person to be removed from the
acknowledgements... Oh Rick.... :op
Hmmm
what could I submit... Oh I know, something I had to do today really quick...
Find all OU's with any GPO link whatsoever...
First off I wondered, is gplink in the GC?
adfind -schema -f ldapdisplayname=gplink
ismemberofpartialattributeset
Gets
you
dn:CN=GP-Link,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=joehome,DC=com
>isMemberOfPartialAttributeSet:
TRUE
So
it sure is... This is easy!
adfind -gc -b -f "&(objectcategory=organizationalunit)(gplink=*)"
gplink
On
my home domain that rips off in less than a second...
dn:OU=Domain Controllers,DC=joehome,DC=com
>gPLink:
[LDAP://CN={6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=joehome,DC=com;0]
dn:OU=Cmps,DC=joehome,DC=com
>gPLink:
[LDAP://CN={61CF67FA-41FA-415C-B349-E7D182BDD54F},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=joehome,DC=com;0]
Oh
ok, you now want to know what the nice name of those
are...
adfind -b
CN={6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=joehome,DC=com
-s base displayname
and
adfind -b
CN={61CF67FA-41FA-415C-B349-E7D182BDD54F},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=joehome,DC=com
-s base
I
don't recall those exact examples in the book. :op
Can
anyone guess how often I use adfind in the course of a normal
workday?
Me
neither. But I have wrapped it with a couple of batch files.
The
first is called findthis.cmd
It
takes whatever I enter and basically does a
adfind -gc -b -f name=%1 -dn
I
also have a kids.cmd
adfind -gc -b %1 -s one -f * -dn
and
also I have a get
adfind -b %1 -s base
Ok
that is enough, I don't want to hurt anyone. ;o)
Good
night!
joe
And what have you been drinking at
1am?? :-) Good thought, but my guess is that
people who offer good suggestions probably already have a copy
of the book (since they know what's in there and what isn't). FWIW,
I would be happy to mention in the
acknowledgements section anyone who suggests a recipe I include in the next
edition.
Robbie Allen
Hey
Rob,
What about this....
donate a cookbook a month for someone who comes up with a great idea for
additions to the next version of the cookbook.
Basically the
submissions have to follow the format of the book, and have to work.
They would be judge
based on the following criteria.
The topic covered
in AD. 1-25 points (Existing topics with a spin get up to 12.5 points;
new topics getting up to 25 if worthy.)
The issues
identified within the topic 1-25 points. (Each issue identified gets
2.5 points for existing topics. Max 10)
The solutions that
meet the needs identified for each topic. 1-50 points. (Each need that
gets a solution gets 5 points per solutions. Solutions should identify
any GUI, CLI, and VB methods for automation.)
To make things
interesting if it takes off, If one of the vendors (Cough....NETPRO,
Cough....AELITA, Cough.....Quest, Cough......BV) was willing to support this
contest, it would be really interesting.
Just an Idea at
1AM...
Toddler
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Thanks
for all of the positive feedback about the book. I give the credit to
my all-star cast of reviewers :-)
My
main goal was to produce a reference that would help AD admins get
their job done quicker and easier. There is just too much stuff AD
admins have to remember and that's why I thought the O'Reilly cookbook
format would work especially well in this case.
Keep
the feedback coming....
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Agreed - I
got mine yesterday from Amazon and I must say that this should be on the
shelf of every AD administrator. Period.
Michael Parent MCSE
MCT
Analyst I - Web Services
ITOS - Systems Enablement
Maritime
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Received my very
own copy of Mr. Robbie Allen's "Tuna" book last night from Amazon.com - in
the first night's reading the book is already proving it's worth as I see
how to do certain things much simpler than I had done them before (with
regards to the VBScripts included), as well as learn new things I didn't
realize could be done (in both AD2K and AD2K3). The book will be very
handy as I continue to stand up my development Windows 2003
domain.
To anyone else on this list
who hasn't gotten it yet...it's a worthwhile addition to your Active
Directory library.
To Robbie (and
all the others who assisted him!) - thanks for a great
resource!
r/
Lou
