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This may be due to incorrect OU DN format. <br />
It should be like:<br />
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<pre><code id="code-121298">dsquery computer -inactive 8 -limit 1000 &quot;ou=mlp,ou=computer accounts,dc=aaa, dc=bbb,dc=ccc, dc=org&quot; |dsmove -newparent &quot;ou=inactive computers,ou=mlp,ou=computer accounts,dc=aaa,dc=bbb,dc=ccc,dc=org&quot; -u domain\userid -p Mypassw0rd
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This may be due to incorrect OU DN format.
It should be like:



dsquery computer -inactive 8 -limit 1000 "ou=mlp,ou=computer accounts,dc=aaa, dc=bbb,dc=ccc, dc=org" |dsmove -newparent "ou=inactive computers,ou=mlp,ou=computer accounts,dc=aaa,dc=bbb,dc=ccc,dc=org" -u domain\userid -p Mypassw0rd


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It worked beautiffully! Thank you! <br />
I did however get an Out of Memory Error and explorer closed. The script finished and move the objects, but I had to manually run an explorer task.
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It worked beautiffully! Thank you!
I did however get an Out of Memory Error and explorer closed. The script finished and move the objects, but I had to manually run an explorer task.

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i am trying to use the dsquery command line tool to identify inactive computer accounts of 8 weeks and then dsmove them by piping the results. <br />
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&nbsp;The command is:<br />
dsquery computer -inactive 8 -limit 1000 ou=mlp,ou=&quot;computer accounts&quot;,dc=aaa,dc=bbb,dc<wbr />=ccc,dc=or<wbr />g &nbsp; | dsmove -newparent ou=&quot;inactive computers&quot;,ou=mlp,ou=&quot;comp<wbr />uter accounts&quot;,dc=aaa,dc=bbb,dc<wbr />=ccc,dc=or<wbr />g -u domain\userid -p Mypassw0rd<br />
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The error returned is:<br />
dsmove failed:`CN=sporaticcompute<wbr />rnames,OU=<wbr />MLP,OU=com<wbr />puter accounts,DC=aaa,DC=bbb,DC=<wbr />ccc,<br />
DC=org' is an unknown parameter.<br />
type dsmove /? for help.
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i am trying to use the dsquery command line tool to identify inactive computer accounts of 8 weeks and then dsmove them by piping the results. 

 The command is:
dsquery computer -inactive 8 -limit 1000 ou=mlp,ou="computer accounts",dc=aaa,dc=bbb,dc=ccc,dc=org   | dsmove -newparent ou="inactive computers",ou=mlp,ou="computer accounts",dc=aaa,dc=bbb,dc=ccc,dc=org -u domain\userid -p Mypassw0rd

The error returned is:
dsmove failed:`CN=sporaticcomputernames,OU=MLP,OU=computer accounts,DC=aaa,DC=bbb,DC=ccc,
DC=org' is an unknown parameter.
type dsmove /? for help.

how do i use dsmove with piped results

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