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Using VBScript to query AD for all OU's, and then have them show in a drop down box in an hta page

Asked by: bryanpilger

I am using an .hta page to simplify account creation in AD. As soon as the .hta page loads, i want the drop down box to query and list all OU's in AD so that we can choose which OU to put our users in when we create them. Or it could simply list all the main OU's, then when you click on one of them, it will open another drop down box that lists all the OU's under the one you just selected, and so on and so forth.  Does anybody have a script that can do this that I can use to integrate into my application?

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2008-06-09 at 03:23:34ID23468496
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Answers

 

by: SagiEDocPosted on 2008-06-09 at 05:52:57ID: 21742755

dsquery ou run in a command window will list all OU's. You could run dsquery ou >c:\list.csv whiuch will write the result to a text file, which you could then read and use to populate a list.

 

by: RobSampsonPosted on 2008-06-11 at 20:48:14ID: 21766084

Hi, I meant to get to this one earlier, but here's a HTA that will build and list the OU structure from your LDAP server in a list box....

Regards,

Rob.

<head>
	<title>List OU Strucutre</title>
	<HTA:APPLICATION 
	     APPLICATIONNAME="List OU Structure"
	     SCROLL="no"
	     SINGLEINSTANCE="yes"
	     WINDOWSTATE="maximize"
	>
	
 
	<script language='vbs'>
	<!--
		
	    ' ******************************************************************************
	    
		Option Explicit
		
	    Sub Window_OnLoad
	    	
	    	Dim strBaseConnString
	    	Dim objOULevel
	    	Dim intLevel
	    	Dim objRootDSE
	    	
	    	Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
	    	
	    	strBaseConnString = objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
	    	
			Set objOULevel = GetObject("LDAP://" & strBaseConnString)
			
			RecurseOUs objOULevel, 0, strBaseConnString
	    End Sub
 
	Sub RecurseOUs(objOU, intLevel, strBaseConn)
		Dim objOUObject, strConnString, objActiveOption
		For Each objOUObject In objOU
			If UCase(Left(objOUObject.Name, 3)) = "OU=" Then
				strConnString = objOUObject.DistinguishedName
				Set objActiveOption = Document.CreateElement("OPTION")
		    	If intLevel = 0 Then
		    		objActiveOption.Text = Replace(objOUObject.Name, "OU=", "")
		    	Else
		    		objActiveOption.Text = String(intLevel * 4, " ") & "->   " & Replace(objOUObject.Name, "OU=", "")
		    	End If
		    	objActiveOption.Value = strConnString
		    	lstSiteFilter.Add objActiveOption
				RecurseOUs GetObject("LDAP://" & strConnString), intLevel + 1, strBaseConn
			End If
		Next
	End Sub
 
		Sub Show_Selection
			spanSiteFilter.InnerHTML = lstSiteFilter.Value
		End Sub
	-->
	</script>
 
</head>
 
<body>
 
	<br><br><br>
	<table width='80%' height='40%' align='center' border='0'>
		<tr height='10%'>
			<td colspan=2>
				<font face='Arial' size='4'>Site Selected:</font>				
				<font face='Arial' size='3'>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<span id = 'spanSiteFilter'></span></font>
			</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height='20%'>
			<td>
				<font face='Arial' size='4'>Site Filter:&nbsp&nbsp</font>
			    <select size='1' name='lstSiteFilter'  onChange='vbs:Show_Selection'>
				</select>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</body>

                                              
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by: iistechPosted on 2009-03-03 at 15:37:53ID: 23790268

Excellent example!!!

 

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