Questions tagged [ou]

OU stands for Organizational Unit. It's used in directories in general and in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), particularly to point out the main attribute of the organizationalUnit class.

Organizational Unit is described in ITU-T X521 (Telecommunication Standardization sector of International Telecommunication Union) as a class used to define entries representing subdivisions of organizations. As far as LDAP is concerned, organizationalUnit is defined in RFC2256.

Organizational Units are generaly the immediate superior of entries of object class user, inetOrgPerson, group or groupOfNames.

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Multiple Organizational Units (OU) ASN.1 encoding differences

I have come across two different ways of encoding multiple OUs. One is to list the multiple OUs at the same level as other identifier, such as SEQUENCE { SET { SEQUENCE { OBJECT IDENTIFIER commonName (2 5 4 3) PrintableString…
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narrowing OU to only return users from all results

so I currently have code that returns the ADUsers of a company. I want to narrow the results that it brings back to only show the users and not the other results that its returning. I have the following code Import-Module ActiveDirectory $fmtADUser…
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Get fully-qualified name of an OU

I have a code to get the list of OUs within a domain. Now this just lists all the OUs and does not give any way to distinguish between an OU and a sub OU. DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + domain); DirectorySearcher mySearcher =…
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Extract Domain from DistiniguishedName using PowerShell

I tried the following code to extract the domain and it worked just fine when defining a variable $ADS = 'CN=Lamda,OU=OU_Bloquage,DC=Adminstrateur,DC=6NLG-AD' But things didn't go well when I changed $ADS into $ADS = Get-ADUser -Identity 'Lamda'…
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How to get all users from specific ou in active directory using java?

Here is the method which i have used to fetch but nothing is being populated. public void doSearch() throws NamingException { String searchFilter = "(&(ou=Example,ou=Examples_ou)(objectClass=person))"; String domain =…
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Is it possible to create a csv export with -Append but overwrite it?

I read out all AD-User out of different OUs. I Need the function Append but if i do it with this it doesn't overwrite the CSV Export if i run the Script again. If i do it without the function Append it overwrites all other OUs and all I see in the…
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Update users in AD in specific OU with PowerShell

Let's say I have below OU tree: DataManagement └─Country ├─Germany │ └─Users │ ├─Laptops │ └─Computers ├─France │ └─Users │ ├─Laptops │ └─Computers etc. I would like to update specific container in OU, for example, users…
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Possible to compress variable substitution in powershell?

I'm trying to create a script with GUI that will allow me to create user accounts for my organization and to assign the user accounts to various OUs. My problem is that I want to display a simple name in a listbox and have the selection map to the…
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Compare AD users from CSV to a specific OU

I have a CSV list of usernames from all over my domain, and I'm trying to compare the list against a specific OU and send the matches to another file. I'm brand new to powershell, so after a good amount of research and comparing with other scripts I…
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C#, Create GPO And link it to OU using Microsoft.GroupPolicy.Management?

I've done hard research and trying to solve my problem. 3 days googling and asking now i ended up with this : using Microsoft.GroupPolicy; private void ManipulateGPO(){ GPDomain domain = new GPDomain("sh.dom"); Gpo gpo_background =…
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PowerShell to list multiple AD groups membership from specific Organizational Unit

I have a need to get all of the AD groups and their respective memberships out of a specific AD OU. The code I have does that when writing to the host screen but I am not able to output it cleanly to .xml, which was the requested format, but at…
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Powershell: Find all computers in AD but exclude certain OU's

I am trying to list all computers in my domain except for those stored in any of the two OU's. As soon as I add the second OU using the -or operator things break. Using this I return all computers except for those stored in my first unwanted…
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Office 365: Organization Unit

I need to know how I can Retrieve all organization units for my tenant (Azure AD) Fetch users for belonging to a certain Organization Unit. Is there any REST API documentation for this purpose? Let's say if I need to access the data for my…
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Report for OU advanced security permissions

The below code will return generic OU permissions Import-Module ActiveDirectory set-location AD: $OUAcl = (Get-Acl 'OU=ParentOU,OU=ChildOU,DC=test,DC=test,DC=com').Access $OUAcl However what I want to audit is the advanced security permissions. I…
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ASP.NET MVC 5 Active Directory Authentication Get User Group

I have an application that authorizes against an active directory and this working perfectly. Now what I am trying to do is get the user that is login group name. I have this method here: [HttpPost] public ActionResult Login(LoginClass…
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