DSQUERY / DSGET
raied
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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
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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.
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APA
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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
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