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Need an excel macro that can query the machine names in colum Q and get the OU name the machine is in.

Asked by bsharath in VB Script, Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software, Scripting Languages

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Hi,

Need an excel macro that can query the machine names in colum Q and get the OU name the machine is in to colum "BZ"

below is a code that get the Users OU name. If this can be changed to computer OU name in "BZ"
that would be fine.

REgards
Sharath
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Sub Get_OU_Name_From_ADS_Where_Resides()
    For intRow = 2 To Cells(65536, "L").End(xlUp).Row
        strNTLogin = Cells(intRow, "L").Value
        If Trim(Cells(intRow, "BP").Value) = "" Then
            strDN = Get_LDAP_User_Properties("user", "samAccountName", strNTLogin, "distinguishedName")
            If UCase(Left(strDN, 3)) = "CN=" Then
                arrDN = Split(strDN, ",")
                strTopOU = ""
                For i = 0 To UBound(arrDN)
                    If Left(arrDN(i), 3) = "OU=" Then
                        arrOU = Split(arrDN(i), "=")
                        strTopOU = arrOU(1)
                        Exit For
                    End If
                Next
                If strTopOU <> "" Then Cells(intRow, "BP").Value = strTopOU
            End If
        End If
    Next
End Sub
 
Function Get_LDAP_User_Properties(strObjectType, strSearchField, strObjectToGet, strCommaDelimProps)
      
      ' This is a custom function that connects to the Active Directory, and returns the specific
      ' Active Directory attribute value, of a specific Object.
      ' strObjectType: usually "User" or "Computer"
      ' strSearchField: the field by which to seach the AD by. This acts like an SQL Query's WHERE clause.
      '             It filters the results by the value of strObjectToGet
      ' strObjectToGet: the value by which the results are filtered by, according the strSearchField.
      '             For example, if you are searching based on the user account name, strSearchField
      '             would be "samAccountName", and strObjectToGet would be that speicific account name,
      '             such as "jsmith".  This equates to "WHERE 'samAccountName' = 'jsmith'"
      ' strCommaDelimProps: the field from the object to actually return.  For example, if you wanted
      '             the home folder path, as defined by the AD, for a specific user, this would be
      '             "homeDirectory".  If you want to return the ADsPath so that you can bind to that
      '             user and get your own parameters from them, then use "ADsPath" as a return string,
      '             then bind to the user: Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strReturnADsPath)
      
      ' Now we're checking if the user account passed may have a domain already specified,
      ' in which case we connect to that domain in AD, instead of the default one.
      If InStr(strObjectToGet, "\") > 0 Then
            arrGroupBits = Split(strObjectToGet, "\")
            strDC = arrGroupBits(0)
            strDNSDomain = strDC & "/" & "DC=" & Replace(Mid(strDC, InStr(strDC, ".") + 1), ".", ",DC=")
            strObjectToGet = arrGroupBits(1)
      Else
      ' Otherwise we just connect to the default domain
            Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
            strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
      End If
 
      strBase = "<LDAP://" & strDNSDomain & ">"
      ' Setup ADO objects.
      Set adoCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
      Set ADOConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
      ADOConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
      ADOConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
      adoCommand.ActiveConnection = ADOConnection
 
 
      ' Filter on user objects.
      'strFilter = "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user))"
      strFilter = "(&(objectClass=" & strObjectType & ")(" & strSearchField & "=" & strObjectToGet & "))"
 
      ' Comma delimited list of attribute values to retrieve.
      strAttributes = strCommaDelimProps
      arrProperties = Split(strCommaDelimProps, ",")
 
      ' Construct the LDAP syntax query.
      strQuery = strBase & ";" & strFilter & ";" & strAttributes & ";subtree"
      adoCommand.CommandText = strQuery
      ' Define the maximum records to return
      adoCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 100
      adoCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 30
      adoCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = False
 
      ' Run the query.
      Set adoRecordset = adoCommand.Execute
      ' Enumerate the resulting recordset.
      strReturnVal = ""
      Do Until adoRecordset.EOF
          ' Retrieve values and display.
          For intCount = LBound(arrProperties) To UBound(arrProperties)
                If strReturnVal = "" Then
                      strReturnVal = adoRecordset.Fields(intCount).Value
                Else
                      strReturnVal = strReturnVal & vbCrLf & adoRecordset.Fields(intCount).Value
                End If
          Next
          ' Move to the next record in the recordset.
          adoRecordset.MoveNext
      Loop
 
      ' Clean up.
      adoRecordset.Close
      ADOConnection.Close
      Get_LDAP_User_Properties = strReturnVal
 
End Function
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