Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Connecting to Active Directory to Perform a Search

In this section, you are going to use a special query technique to search Active Directory. You’ll be able to use the results returned by that custom query to perform additional tasks. For example, you could search Active Directory for all users who don’t have telephone numbers assigned to them. You could then send that list to the person in charge of maintaining the telephone numbers. Even better, you could modify the search so that it returns the user names and their managers’ names. You could then take the list of users with no phone numbers that is returned and send e-mail to the managers to get the phone list in Active Directory updated. The functionality incorporated in your scripts is primarily ...