[THIN] Re: OT :W2K OU -> user. Moving Info Script.
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:46:08 -0000
Comments inline...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davey [mailto:DB1001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 March 2003 16:26
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT :W2K OU -> user. Moving Info Script.
>
> On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 15:19, Braebaum, Neil wrote:
> >
> > When you say "address information" what do you mean?
> Under the general tab of the OU properties you have :
> description Street City State/Province Zip Country
This appears to be available as: description and postaladdress properties of
the IADsOU interface.
> > Have you identified the properties you wish to modify on the user
> > accounts?
>
> On the user properties, Address tab you have similar boxes.
> Street PO BOx City Zip Country
Again, for the IADsUser interface / object you have a description property,
and a postaladdress property.
> > It all sounds plenty easy using ADSI scripting - but I'd need to
> > understand what you mean a bit more.
>
> What I'd like to do is take the information from the OU
> general tab and copy this into the users address tab - as
> much as I can.. Obviously there are some differences. Each OU
> has a different address and so I'd need to check for each OU
> and then all the users under that OU and then write the
> information into the Users address tab. I'd then need to pick
> up the next OU (e.g. OU2), check to make sure I have the info
> in the general tab and add this to the users in OU2.. and
> repeat until I didn't have anymore OUs
You'd have to use the LDAP provider - these properties are only available
using that provider.
It all sounds fairly easy - open RootDSE, get the defaultnamingcontext, open
that (so effectively you are starting at the top of your directory),
evaluate all objects.
For OU objects, get the adspath, pass it to a recursive function that opens
the OU object with the adspath passed.
Get the description and postaladdress properties of the OU you've just
opened (acksherly it looks like you only want the postaladdress), and
remember it in your head (think cheap card trick) - I'm messing with you ;-)
- store it.
Then evaluate all user objects within the OU. Set the stored postal address
on all user objects you evaluate.
Then evaluate all OUs within the current OU. For each OU object, call the
very same recursive function with the adspath you've just got, and it'll
carry on down the hierarchy / tree.
When you've finished, you'll discover the card you chose, and are holding
behind your back, is actually the 8 of diamonds. Impressed?
I described the workings of how to do this in rather generic terms, because
I'm not sure what your chosen method of scripting may be, but this is all
perfectly doable, and easy, with ADSI scripting.
Pick a card, any card... ;-)
Neil
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