DSQUERY / DSGET

Can someone please explain the differance between DSQUERY and DSGET? Maybe provide example when to one command over the other.

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dojo

This is what I know:

Dsquery finds and returns a set of objects from Active Directory based on search criteria. Dsget returns properties for one or mor specified objects.

APA

DSquery:- funnily enough 'queries'

A.D for objects that match a specified search criteria.

expanding on that........

DSquery can be used to create a list of objects the output can then be pipe to another command such as dsmod to make a configuration change. eg to a user account.

eg Use DSquery to return a list of users who haven't changed their password for a certain number of days then pipe that output with | to dsmod which would configure the "User must change password at next logon" attribute within A.D for all those users.

DSget:- to put it plain and simple, gets/displays properties of a specific object

eg:- dsget user "CN=Adrian Arumugam,CN=Users,DC=adrian,DC=com" -memberof

above command will display the groups the user belongs to. use -expand with the above command to include groups the user may belong to due to group nesting

Hope this helps