Re: User search in ADS Snap-in

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From: Tomasz Onyszko (T.Onyszko_at_w2k.pl)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:54:36 +0200

Srinivas wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> I have a Windows 2003 ADS with a lot of OUs and sub OUs in which all the
> users are listed.
> Now everytime a user calls me to reset his password, I would do the
> following.
> Search for the user ID in the ADS snap in and then reset his password.
> Now I would also want to know under which OU does this user exist without me
> asking the end user about all his department details. I do not document the
> details of the users department in the user attributes.
> So my question is just by taking a user ID I want to search where in the
> Active directory hierarchy is he existing.

If You want to now it from the ADU&C search result just add
Distinguished name to the list of columns in result (View -> Choose
columns) 

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Tomasz Onyszko [MVP]
T.Onyszko@w2k.pl
http://www.w2k.pl

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