dsquery -limit command not working

[Daigle]

As my title says I’m facing some problem with dsquery -limit command. I wanted to know return more than 100 results from AD. For doing the same I used the following command:

dsquery user OU=_Users,OU=DCA,OU=Locations,DC=sm,DC=doi,DC=net –limit 300 |
dsget user -dn -desc -profile -hmdir -loscr > adusersv3.txt

But I guess I’m making some mistake due to which it keeps on giving me the following error message:

“dsquery failed:`-limit' is an unknown parameter.
type dsquery /? for help.dsget failed:`Target object for this command' is missing.”

So I request you people to please help me out and let me know the proper method.

Thank you very much.

[Janos™]

As far as i know the problem may when dsget encountered a user with a Common Name that contains an embedded quote.

There may be possibilities that you might have a similar user name? SO i'll suggest you to try troubleshooting by changing the -limit value. Hope it works.

[Daigle]

I appreciate your help Janos. But can you please be more specific what exactly you mean by "similar user name". However I changed the limit to 200 and still get the same error.Thanks again.

[JStoops]

I know what you are doing wrong. It is the syntax that is incorrect. To keep it simple, if you would like to list all objects in Active Directory, use the following:

dsquery * -limit 10000

You have to give the amount to limit the search by. I believe you are using the following syntax instead...

dsquery * -limit

You can modify as needed to suit your needs.