evaluate OU from login script

12 Aug 2005 3:23 PM

AdminKen

Is there a way to evaluate the OU of a user/computer in a log in script
(.bat or .vbs)? I would like to create a common login script for all my
users instead of having a different script for every OU but I would need the
script to be aware of the container a user is in so that user can have
different drive mappings etc. I am currently using 'ifmember' for
distinctions between security groups but I would like to also use OUs.

thanks
Ken

12 Aug 2005 5:00 PM

Dominic Johnson

Ken,

you could try something like this in VBScript:

Set objADInfo = WScript.CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")
Wscript.Echo objADInfo.UserName

This will give you the distinguished name of the user.
You can extract the lowest OU level from the DN with this

strStart = InStr(objADInfo.UserName,",OU") + 4

If strStart = 4 Then

    strStart = Instr(objADInfo.UserName,",") + 4
    strEnd   = Instr(objADInfo.UserName,"DC") -1

Else

    strEnd   = Instr(strStart,objADInfo.UserName,",")

End If

strOU = Mid(objADInfo.UserName,strStart,(strEnd-strStart))

WScript.Echo strOU

I have used this to get the OU of a computer account in the past
(hence the check to see if "OU" is in the DN string).

It still seems a bit clunky to me but hopefully someone has
a more elegant solution

Dominic

13 Aug 2005 1:07 AM

Paul Bergson

You should be able to find plenty of examples here.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx

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"AdminKen" <s***@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to evaluate the OU of a user/computer in a log in script
> (.bat or .vbs)? I would like to create a common login script for all my
> users instead of having a different script for every OU but I would need
the
> script to be aware of the container a user is in so that user can have
> different drive mappings etc. I am currently using 'ifmember' for
> distinctions between security groups but I would like to also use OUs.
>
> thanks
> Ken
>
>
>

13 Aug 2005 3:34 PM

Torgeir Bakken (MVP)

AdminKen wrote:

> Is there a way to evaluate the OU of a user/computer in a log in script
> (.bat or .vbs)? I would like to create a common login script for all my
> users instead of having a different script for every OU but I would need the
> script to be aware of the container a user is in so that user can have
> different drive mappings etc. I am currently using 'ifmember' for
> distinctions between security groups but I would like to also use OUs.
>
Hi,

VBScript solution:

'--------------------8<----------------------
Set oADSystemInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")

Wscript.Echo "User's distinguished name: " & oADSystemInfo.UserName

Set oUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & oADSystemInfo.UserName)
Wscript.Echo "User object's parent path: " & oUser.Parent

sOUPathUser = Mid(oUser.Parent, 8)
Wscript.Echo "sOUPathUser is: " & sOUPathUser

Wscript.Echo "Computers's distinguished name: " & oADSystemInfo.ComputerName

Set oComputer = GetObject("LDAP://" & oADSystemInfo.ComputerName)
Wscript.Echo "Computer object's parent path: " & oComputer.Parent

sOUPathComputer = Mid(oComputer.Parent, 8)
Wscript.Echo "sOUPathComputer is: " & sOUPathComputer

'--------------------8<----------------------

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Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
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7 Sep 2005 5:57 AM

AdminKen

Thanks so much. I will test that.

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"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com> wrote in message
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> AdminKen wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to evaluate the OU of a user/computer in a log in script
>> (.bat or .vbs)? I would like to create a common login script for all my
>> users instead of having a different script for every OU but I would need
>> the script to be aware of the container a user is in so that user can
>> have different drive mappings etc. I am currently using 'ifmember' for
>> distinctions between security groups but I would like to also use OUs.
>>
> Hi,
>
> VBScript solution:
>
> '--------------------8<----------------------
> Set oADSystemInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")
>
> Wscript.Echo "User's distinguished name: " & oADSystemInfo.UserName
>
> Set oUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & oADSystemInfo.UserName)
> Wscript.Echo "User object's parent path: " & oUser.Parent
>
> sOUPathUser = Mid(oUser.Parent, 8)
> Wscript.Echo "sOUPathUser is: " & sOUPathUser
>
>
> Wscript.Echo "Computers's distinguished name: " &
> oADSystemInfo.ComputerName
>
> Set oComputer = GetObject("LDAP://" & oADSystemInfo.ComputerName)
> Wscript.Echo "Computer object's parent path: " & oComputer.Parent
>
> sOUPathComputer = Mid(oComputer.Parent, 8)
> Wscript.Echo "sOUPathComputer is: " & sOUPathComputer
>
> '--------------------8<----------------------
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx