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LDAP Connection String Values

We have an application that integrates to LDAP. The example string the vendor shows is: 'LDAP://DomainNm/ou=US,dc=company,dc=com'; however, our domain name is simply company.local. Does this mean that the string it wants looks like LDAP://company.local,dc=company,dc=local? I'm not sure if the "/ou=US" is something that is optional, or something that's always required. Is there an easy way (using adsiedit, perhaps) to determine the proper string for this?

Thanks!

jwarnken

This is something that depends on the structure of you domain.
I would use the rootDSE and "defaultNamingContext" from this example script to make your script dynamic enough to run in any domain

' Users .vbs
' Sample VBScript to create a User in Users .
' Author Guy Thomas http://Computerperformance.co.uk/
' Version 1.3 - September 2005
' ------------------------------------------------------'
Option Explicit
Dim strUser
Dim objRootLDAP, objContainer, objNewUser
strUser = "DomGuy2"
 
' Bind to Active Directory, Users container.
Set objRootLDAP = GetObject("LDAP://rootDSE")
Set objContainer = GetObject("LDAP://cn=Users," & _
objRootLDAP.Get("defaultNamingContext"))
 
' Build the actual User.
Set objNewUser = objContainer.Create("User", "cn=" & strUser)
objNewUser.Put "sAMAccountName", strUser
objNewUser.SetInfo
 
WScript.Quit
 
' End of free sample Create Users VBScript.

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