Export Active Directory Structure

Sorry I hit the enter key before I was done....
If all you want is a list of a directory's contents try this:

(NT/2K/XP)  Start : Run : CMD
(Win9X)  Start : Run : command

at command prompt type:
   C:\Desired_Folder>dir >> DirList.txt

This command will tell the PC to dump a directory list into a text file named DirList.txt
It will look like this:
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 Volume in drive C is DRV2_VOL1
 Volume Serial Number is xxxx-xxxx

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop

04/01/2004  06:50 PM    <DIR>          .
04/01/2004  06:50 PM    <DIR>          ..
04/01/2004  07:11 PM    <DIR>          My Briefcase
04/01/2004  07:11 PM    <DIR>          Internet
07/20/2003  12:57 PM               234 RentACoder.lnk
11/14/2003  09:33 PM               470 Adobe Photoshop 6.0 .lnk
11/08/2004  09:14 AM             1,682 MusicMatch Jukebox 4.lnk
06/22/2004  09:43 PM             1,595 AutoCAD LT 2000i.lnk
07/29/2005  02:21 AM             1,653 Adobe Reader 7.0.lnk
08/15/2005  11:45 PM               708 DivX Player.lnk
08/15/2005  11:45 PM             1,345 DivX Movies.lnk
09/09/2005  06:00 PM               683 Yahoo! Messenger.lnk
09/22/2005  02:23 PM             1,515 Mozilla Firefox.lnk
09/23/2005  11:08 AM                 0 DirList.txt
              17 File(s)         15,102 bytes
               4 Dir(s)   2,610,233,344 bytes free
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If this is not what you wanted, be more specific,  and I'll try again!!!

Regards,
Don

This needs to be done with the AD schema. Not just a plain directory listing. Thanks though. Or if there is a tool that will accomplish this.

Also if you want the list to look a certain way or show certain items try adding some switches to the "dir" command.  at prompt type "dir /?" and it will show you your options.

Try:
<prompt>\dir /O:N >> DirList.txt

this would make the same file as my post above but list dir/files alphabeticly!!!

Hope that helps,
Don

What's an Active Directory Schema?

OK I looked it up....

Sorry I wasted your time...

This is more of a programming question don't you think?

Not really programming, but more like a server administrator. Users, groups, etc are created in a structure and can be exported at a single level, but not the sublevels.

I recommend csvde as it will create a .csv file which you could open in Excel, and I've used it more.
....guess I'm just partial.
Hope that Helps
-Spamster

I just had to say that I second csvde.  Spamster FTW

I'm leaning more towards the csvde as well, testing it out.

What about ADSIEDIT? Not sure if export functionality is there, but its free give it a shot....

-Personally, unless I'm misunderstanding this I really dont see the point... There are millions of object definitions and parameters in the schema... I dont see how you are going to make practical use of such a vast about of data and making sence of what the schema defs are is not that simple either... I suggest to you that whatever you think you can use this data for may be a blind alley...

I just want the list as an example for creating a new domain structure.

such as a flat csv file.  If I were to right click berlin and choose export it would only list the OU Computers.
-Europe
 -Germany
   -Berlin
    -computers
-Americas (OU)
 -Wyoming (OU)
   -computers
   -groups
   -users
 -Alaska
   -computers
   -groups
   -users

I see, you only want some details like OU members etc...
You definatly need to use LDIF utility http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/activedirectory/bulksteps.asp