Active Directory Cookbook

11.8. Finding the Site Links for a Site

Problem

You want to list the site links that are associated with a site.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

1. Open LDP and from the menu, select Connection → Connect.

2. For Server, enter the name of a domain controller (or leave blank to do a serverless bind).

3. For Port, enter 389.

4. Click OK.

5. From the menu, select Connection → Bind.

6. Enter credentials of domain user.

7. Click OK.

8. From the menu, select Browse → Search.

9. For BaseDN, type the Inter-Site Transports container DN (e.g., cn=Inter-siteTransports,cn=sites,cn=configuration,dc=rallencorp,dc=com).

10. For Scope, select Subtree.

11. For Filter, enter the following:

    (&(objectcategory=siteLink)(siteList=cn=<SiteName>,[RETURN]
    cn=sites,cn=configuration,<ForestRootDN>))

12. Click Run.

Using a command-line interface

> dsquery * "cn=inter-site transports,cn=sites,cn=configuration,<ForestRootDN>"[RETURN]
-filter "(&(objectcategory=siteLink)(siteList=cn=<SiteName>,
                  [RETURN]
cn=sites,cn=configuration,<ForestRootDN>))" -scope subtree -attr name

Using VBScript

' This code displays the site links associated with the specified site
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
strSiteName = "<SiteName>" ' e.g. Raleigh ' ------ END CONFIGURATION --------- set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") strSiteDN = "cn=" & strSiteName & ",cn=sites," & _ objRootDSE.Get("ConfigurationNamingContext") strBase = "<LDAP://cn=Inter-site Transports,cn=sites," _ & objRootDSE.Get("ConfigurationNamingContext") & ">;" strFilter = "(&(objectcategory=siteLink)" ...