DSQUERY / DSADD / DSGET - Tips

bcairns

Hello -

Playing around for the command prompt it occured to me that you really could use use MSDOS Batch files instead of retyping the commands...

http://www.allenware.com/mcsw/bus.htm

Just create plain text files with a ".bat" extention.

"myfile.bat"

be sure to use a "pause" command at the end to keep the command window open....

Example Batch File:

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echo This is a sample batch file displays dsget help
dsget /?
pause

---

This tip may seem obvious to some but I hope it helps at least one person

sprkymrk

I never got into vbscript very much simply because I never saw the advantage it had over the Windows shell and batch files. I run dsquery scripts to check for computer/user accounts that are expired or disabled, expired or old passwords, etc. As mentioned in my other posts I use the for command in batch files for tons of stuff, and pstools, support tools, and resourse kit tools provide so much flexibility that there isn't much I can't script.

That was the long way of saying "I agree with you".