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Are you looking to enter a computer-name manually and have the script check AD for that host, or do you have a list of names in a txt or CSV file that you need to loop through and output status information for each?
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And in case you want to ask: Doing it in traditional batch file is difficult.
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I need a batch file just to check whether a computer exists and give an errorlevel if possible and output those existing and those not<br />
advice appreciated
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I need a batch file just to check whether a computer exists and give an errorlevel if possible and output those existing and those not
advice appreciated

batch file to check whether a computer is listed in AD

Batch files are text files containing a script of commands that are executed by the command interpreter on DOS, OS/2 and Windows systems. Most commonly, they are used to perform a series of functions that are repeated -- copying a set of files created daily with one step, for example.