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Help with LDAP query

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I am running Windows 2008 DC's. I have an application running on a seperate Windows 2003 server and I want the app to perform an LDAP call. Within the app, the only fields I have to input are:

Query Root:
Query:

The DC I want to use is dc31.domain.com. It is located in Domain\domain controllers OU.

I want the query to run at the root of my domain so it captures all users and objects. I know what the query should be, but what should the query root be so that I can also have the DC listed in there?

Secondly, if I wanted the query to only search within an OU named Marketing that was located in Domain\UK\Marketing, how would the Query root look?


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Try Query Root

LDAP://dc31.domain.com

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And for Query

(objectClass=*)

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Regarding Query Root, that just specifies the DC's doesn't it? It doesn't actually tell the app where to search?

And what if I wanted to change where the app searches, as per question #2?
It greatly depends on the software if it adds the mandatory LDAP:// prefix...

LDAP://dc31.domain.com/ou=Marketing,ou=UK,dc=domain,dc=com

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Oh, I reread your comment... If you specify server name, you bind to that specific server and not to defaultNamingContext (serverless binding).
Hi

Ok, so I don't need to specify the actual location of the DC in the LDAP string, it's just:

LDAP://<dc>/<location where I want to run the query>

Am I correct?

And how do you mean defaultnamingcontext? Are you saying there's a way to run the query without specifying a DC (better for us in case DC goes offline)
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So for Query Root, we can just run:

LDAP://ou=Marketing,ou=UK,dc=domain,dc=com

It will automatically find the closest DC? Or will just find any DC?
It will propably choose the server that authenticated you but basically, it's able to choose any server, while it prefers servers on the same AD Site.