Re: Simple AD shell script - discover usernames

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for /f "tokens=*" %a in (<textfile of usernames>) do dsquery user -name
"%a" | dsget user -samid

If you're intending in placing the command above in a batch file don't
forget to replace the single percent (%a) with double percent (%%a) in
both cases.

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Martin Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> Ok, one of my users passed me a txt list of users:
>
> smith, john
> jones, bob
> etc ...
>
> Which coincides with our "Name" convention in AD.
> To do what the user wants me to do, I need to convert those "surname,
> firstname"
> into their AD username.
>
> The Command:
> dsquery user -name "smith, john" | dsget user -samid
>
> at prompt returns:
> samid
> SMITHJ
> dsget succeeded
>
> now I could type that command for each entry in the txt file (200+),
> but obviously want to automate it, so it finds the corresponding
> username for each entry.
> All I want is the SMITHJ appending to the "smith, john" in the text
> file so my txt file looks like:
> smith, john SMITHJ
> jones, bob JONESB
>
> Then I can pull into Excel and populate our printer address books.
>
> Even simpler : User passed me a txt list of names, which I need to
> batch convert to AD usernames.
>
> Hope that clears it up, Thanks for the help so far.


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