Re: dsmod utility

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From: Jerold Schulman (Jerry_at_jsiinc.com)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:42:11 -0400

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:35:26 -0700, "Jeff" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I need to find a way to script the dsmod utility to
>automatically remove users from certain groups on logon.
>Everything works except that this utility requires the
>full distinguished name of the user. How can I capture
>this and pass it to the utility?

See tip 7335 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

set DN=N
for /f "Tokens=*" %%u in ('dsquery user -samid %username%') do (
set dn=%%u
)
if "%DN%" EQU "N" goto error

%DN% contains the distinguished name.

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

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