Display Users by Certain Criteria

[simonmarkjones]

Is it possible to Display users in Active directory( or is there a 3rd
Party bit of software that will do this) by certain criteria. For
exaple can you sort by home drive share path or sort by logon script
name. It would be great not to have to open up the properties of each
user in turn to find out what logon script they are using etc..
I have written some vb script to pull out a list of all users and all
their attributes and put this into excel and then i can list by
whichever colmn i want. However it would be much nicer if i could do
this in ad or another bit of software.

Many thanks in advance

 

[Richard Mueller]

Is it possible to Display users in Active directory( or is there a 3rd
Party bit of software that will do this) by certain criteria. For
exaple can you sort by home drive share path or sort by logon script
name. It would be great not to have to open up the properties of each
user in turn to find out what logon script they are using etc..
I have written some vb script to pull out a list of all users and all
their attributes and put this into excel and then i can list by
whichever colmn i want. However it would be much nicer if i could do
this in ad or another bit of software.

Many thanks in advance

Hi,

I don't know how to sort, but you can filter by any criteria. Only the
objects that match your LDAP query are displayed. On the "View" menu in ADUC
select "Filter Options...". I select "Create custom filter" and click
"Customize...". You can use the "Custom Search" tab or enter any LDAP query
on the "Advanced" tab. For examples of LDAP queries, see this link:

http://www.rlmueller.net/ADOSearchTips.htm

The search filters listed can be used as LDAP queries to filter objects in
ADUC. They can also be used in VBScript programs with ADO.

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

You are using AD when you use vbscript to get the info. I think you
mean, can you do it in the builtin GUIs? The answer is not really very
well because the display is hierarchical. The sorting would be by
container which wouldn't be very useful. If you do a search, you can go
to view and add select columns and use those for sorting the current
search view.



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