Re: track targetAddress attribute

I was able to open the tool in the command prompt, thanks for the help. Now
to the next step, how do I run this filter?
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(targetAddress=*))
in order to find out how many students have a forward set to off campus
addresses?


"Brian Desmond [MVP]" wrote:

If you run adfind from a command prompt you won't have issues with it
opening/closing :)

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Thanks,
Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP - Directory Services

www.briandesmond.com


"Liz Real" <LizReal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C16764D8-AD23-466F-99A5-0D8E043968ED@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you Richard for the suggestion. To be honest I do not have much
experience with VBscript.
I downloaded the command line tool adFind from
http://joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/index.htm, ran it but it
opens/closes so fast i can't even read what it says.

any suggestions? i greatly appreciate it.



"Richard Mueller [MVP]" wrote:

Liz Real wrote:

I work for a private university in California and I am trying to find
out
if
it is possible to track how many of our students are forwarding email
off-campus. I read that the targetaddress attribute can be used to
accomplish
this task.

I appreciate any help on this.

I don't have Exchange so I cannot test, but it appears the value of this
attribute is used to redirect email when the intended recipient is
unavailable. You should be able to use ADO in a VBScript program to
retrieve
information on all users that have a value assigned to this attribute.
See
this link for details:

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

Using the syntax from this link, the search filter would be:

strFilter =
"(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(targetAddress=*))"

You could retrieve user names (sAMAccountName or distinguishedName), or
just
count the number of users that have a value assigned to targetAddress.
You
could also retrieve the value of targetAddress.

Note that the same filter,
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(targetAddress=*)), can be
used
with command line tools like dsquery and Joe Richards' adfind. For more
on
adfind see this link:

http://joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/index.htm

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Richard Mueller
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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