Re: How can I retreive computer information from Active Directory

From: BigMike044 (BigMike044_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:43:02 -0800

David, thanks for the information, I am pretty new to programming and I was
wondering if you could reference me to any sites that would give me some
insight with using VBA or WMI to retreive the information.

"david epsom dot com dot au" wrote:

> There is an OLEDB supplier: you can use ADO.
> You can't easily link to the data as a table, because
> for linked tables, Access can only use ODBC, not OLEDB.
>
> If you have the Active Directory stored in a SQL Server,
> you could of course link to those tables, but I don't
> think that has ever been documented.
>
> You can off course reference WMI and use VBA code
> to retrieve the information.
>
> (david)
>
> "BigMike044" <BigMike044@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:DBFBBAF6-206A-40E8-A2B9-6DE5B20C2752@microsoft.com...
> > I was wondering is there a way I can retreive computer
> information(computer
> > inventory) from Active Directory using MSAccess to do the work instead of
> > WMI. I would like to pull the information I want, then have it
> automatically
> > imported into an access database? Any help is greatly apprecieated.
>
>
>

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