Querying AD database

[jmhill1976]

Just curious to know if anyone has experience with writing scripts or utilities which query the Active Directory database. There are certain attributes which I would like to query (ie last login time, etc) which I'm not aware of being easily accessible.

I've never queried against the AD DB, but I see in MS KB articles that it can be done using VBScript + ADO. Can anyone provide me with any information regarding ADSI, or the schema of the AD database which would prove useful?

Thanks.

 

[jmhill1976]

For anyone else that's interested ...

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[jcortes]

i think this belongs in the programming section.

 

[jmhill1976]

i think this belongs in the programming section.

Not really. Windows System Administration, specifically advance Active Directory. But thanks for contributing to the thread.

 

[Crshburndwilson]

I may be really off here and probably am since i am new to the whole AD enviroment, but could you possible use the command line utlitiy and just do a " dsquery /?" command to see what all switches are used and which ones you need.