Active Directory Cookbook

17.2. Finding the Application Partitions in a Forest

Problem

You want to find the application partitions that have been created in a forest.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

1. Open LDP.

2. From the menu, select Connection → Connect.

3. For Server, enter the name of a DC.

4. For Port, enter 389.

5. Click OK.

6. From the menu, select Connection → Bind.

7. Enter a user and password with the necessary credentials.

8. Click OK.

9. From the menu, select Browse → Search.

10. For BaseDN, type the DN of the Partitions container (e.g., cn=partitions,cn=configuration,dc=rallencorp, dc=com).

11. For Filter, enter:

    (&(objectcategory=crossRef)(systemFlags:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=5))

12. For Scope, select One Level.

13. Click the Options button.

14. For Attributes, type dnsRoot.

15. Click OK.

16. Click Run.

Using a command-line interface

Use the following command to find all of the application partitions in a forest:

> dsquery * cn=partitions,cn=configuration,<ForestDN> -filter[RETURN]
"(&(objectcategory=crossRef)(systemFlags:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=5))"[RETURN]
-scope onelevel -attr dnsRoot

Using VBScript

' This code displays the application partitions contained in the ' default forest set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") strBase = "<LDAP://cn=Partitions," & _ objRootDSE.Get("ConfigurationNamingContext") & ">;" strFilter = "(&(objectcategory=crossRef)" & _ "(systemFlags:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=5));" strAttrs = "cn,ncName;" strScope = "onelevel" set objConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") objConn.Provider = "ADsDSOObject" objConn.Open "Active Directory ...