What is your search base? Hopefully your domain.  LDAP://DC=domain,DC=local
Does your tool support subtree searches?

If yes to both, this should work without problem.  I do it with several 
products today.

Thanks,
JB


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Smith [mailto:exch...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: LDAP Query across Multiple OU's

Thanks all for the help. Unfortunately the tool we are using requires LDAP 
queries only, otherwise DSQUERY would have worked fine.


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com> wrote:
> That query will get you more than users - also groups.
>
> If all youw ant is users, you can simplify it to 
> "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user))". If you want groups too, 
> "(|(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user))(&(objectCategory=group)(objectClass=group)))"
>
> Look at adfind as Michael suggested. You can use the incldn and excldn 
> switches if you wanted and search the whole domain but only include 
> certain OUs
>
> Thanks,
> Brian Desmond
> br...@briandesmond.com
>
> c - 312.731.3132
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert Smith [mailto:exch...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:34 PM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: LDAP Query across Multiple OU's
>>
>> We are trying to get all of our users in all OUs, and it needs to be 
>> done in LDAP. that query will return all the users from one specific 
>> OU, but not all users in all OUs in a domain.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Brian Desmond 
>> <br...@briandesmond.com> wrote:
>> > That is a weird looking query. What are you trying to get out of it?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Brian Desmond
>> > br...@briandesmond.com
>> >
>> > c - 312.731.3132
>> >
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Robert Smith [mailto:exch...@gmail.com]
>> >> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:44 PM
>> >> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> >> Subject: LDAP Query across Multiple OU's
>> >>
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> Is there any way to do an LDAP query for users across multiple 
>> >> OU's via Saved Queries in ADUC? We are able to perform the custom 
>> >> search below with the following LDAP queries, but this is only for 
>> >> one OU at a time, we would like to be able to select a few at a 
>> >> time out of almost a hundred OU's
>> >>
>> >>
>> (&(|(&(objectCategory=person)(objectSid=*)(!samAccountType:1.2.840.11
>> >> 3
>> >> 556.1.4.804:=3))(&(objectCategory=person)(!objectSid=*))(&(objectC
>> >> ate
>> >> gor
>> >> y=group)(groupType:1.2.840.113556.1.4.804:=14))))
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >> Bob
>> >>
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>> >
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>> >
>>
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>
>
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