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Active Directory: Querying User Accounts
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Various scripting and command-line methods for querying Active Directory for a list of users.

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Directory Services


DSQuery User


Query a list of all users

    dsquery user

Query disabled users

    dsquery user -disabled

DSGet User


Query disabled users and list their sAMAccountNames.

    dsquery user -disabled | dsget user -samid

VBScript



PowerShell


ADSI


    $adsiSearcher = [adsisearcher]'(ObjectCategory=User)' 
    $adsiSearcher.searchroot = 'LDAP://DC=Contoso,DC=Internal' 
    $searcherResults = $adsiSearcher.findall() 

Active Directory module


Import the Windows ActiveDirectory module and retrieve a list of all users

    Import-Module ActiveDirectory
    Get-ADuser -filter *

Quest ActiveRoles snapin


Import the Quest PowerShell module and retrieve a list of all users

    Add-PSsnapin Quest.activeroles.admanagement
    Get-QADUser -SizeLimit 0
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