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Code that moved AD users to specific OU. Can the same code be changed to move Contacts.

Hi,

Code that moved AD users to specific OU. Can the same code be changed to move Contacts.
Can anyone help me with this.

Regards
Sharath

:: SCRIPT START
@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion

:: Following variables required to be set with actual values
SET NewOU=TempOU

IF EXIST UserMoveRpt.txt DEL /F /Q UserMoveRpt.txt
ECHO %NewOU%|FIND /I "OU=">NUL
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 (
    DSQuery OU "%NewOU%" 2>NUL |FIND /I "OU=" >NUL
    IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 (DSQuery OU "%NewOU%" >OUTmpVar.txt &SET /P OUDN=<OUTmpVar.txt
    ) ELSE (ECHO Invalid OU distinguished name. &Goto :EndScript)
)ELSE (
    DSQuery OU -Name "%NewOU%" |FIND /I "OU=" >NUL
    IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 (DSQuery OU -Name "%NewOU%" >OUTmpVar.txt &SET /P OUDN=<OUTmpVar.txt
    )ELSE (ECHO Invalid OU Name. &Goto :EndScript)
)

FOR /F "delims=*" %%u IN ('TYPE UserIDs.txt') DO (
      ECHO Processing: %%u
      DSQuery User -samID "%%u" |Find /I "CN=" >NUL
      IF NOT ErrorLevel 1 (
            DSQuery User -samID "%%u" |DSMove -newparent !OUDN! >>UserMoveRpt.txt
      )ELSE (ECHO *ERROR* '%%u' Not Found in Active Directory.))

ECHO.&ECHO Script complete. Check 'UserMoveRpt.txt' file.
:EndScript
IF EXIST OUTmpVar.txt DEL /F /Q OUTmpVar.txt
ENDLOCAL
EXIT /B 0
:: *** SCRIPT END ***

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tegmine_it

No, it can't, contacts are not stored in AD

RobSampson

Hi, see if this works. It should read contact ids from a file called ContactIDs.txt

Rob.

:: SCRIPT START 
@ECHO OFF 
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion 
 
:: Following variables required to be set with actual values 
SET NewOU=TempOU
 
IF EXIST ContactMoveRpt.txt DEL /F /Q ContactMoveRpt.txt 
ECHO %NewOU%|FIND /I "OU=">NUL 
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 ( 
    DSQuery OU "%NewOU%" 2>NUL |FIND /I "OU=" >NUL 
    IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 (DSQuery OU "%NewOU%" >OUTmpVar.txt &SET /P OUDN=<OUTmpVar.txt 
    ) ELSE (ECHO Invalid OU distinguished name. &Goto :EndScript) 
)ELSE ( 
    DSQuery OU -Name "%NewOU%" |FIND /I "OU=" >NUL 
    IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 (DSQuery OU -Name "%NewOU%" >OUTmpVar.txt &SET /P OUDN=<OUTmpVar.txt 
    )ELSE (ECHO Invalid OU Name. &Goto :EndScript) 
) 
 
FOR /F "delims=*" %%u IN ('TYPE ContactIDs.txt') DO ( 
      ECHO Processing: %%u 
      DSQuery Contact -samID "%%u" |Find /I "CN=" >NUL 
      IF NOT ErrorLevel 1 ( 
            DSQuery Contact -samID "%%u" |DSMove -newparent !OUDN! >>ContactMoveRpt.txt 
      )ELSE (ECHO *ERROR* '%%u' Not Found in Active Directory.)) 
 
ECHO.&ECHO Script complete. Check 'ContactMoveRpt.txt' file. 
:EndScript 
IF EXIST OUTmpVar.txt DEL /F /Q OUTmpVar.txt 
ENDLOCAL 
EXIT /B 0 
:: *** SCRIPT END ***

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bsharath

ASKER

Thanks Rob

I get this

dsquery failed:`-samID' is an unknown parameter.
type dsquery /? for help.*ERROR* 'Abhishek Avi' Not Found in Active Directory.

Can we query by full name

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bsharath

ASKER

Thanks a lot Rob.. :-)

RobSampson

No problem. Thanks for the grade.

Regards,

Rob.

bsharath