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03.03.2008 at 08:41AM PST, ID: 23209851
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Use dsquery dsmod

Asked by cavalierlan in Active Directory

Tags: Microsoft, Active Directory

I'm trying to pipe a dsquery to a dsmod to change the company attribute of all users in a certain OU.

If I type: (removed my domain name for posting)
dsquery user "ou=Cav USERS TEST,ou=Cavalier USERS,ou=Cavalier,dc=domain,dc=domain,dc=domain,dc=domaindc=domain"
I got a list of the four test users returned from this query.

I then | that to a dsmod -company mycompanyname.  This looks like this
dsquery user "ou=Cav USERS TEST,ou=Cavalier USERS,ou=Cavalier,dc=domain,dc=domain,dc=domain,dc=domaindc=domain" | dsmod -company mycompanyname

This returns an error
dsquery failed:A referral was returned from the server.

I've tried it a number of different ways, but can't get it to work

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