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June 04, 2008

Use ADO for Easy AD Searches

Script large-scale AD account searches using ActiveX Data Objects and LDAP or SQL queries
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Executive Summary:

ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) is a complex topic but it's not difficult to use from a Windows Script Host (WSH) script to query Active Directory (AD). This article explains the basics of querying AD using ADO scripting and LDAP and SQL queries.
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