DSQuery list user for entire forest

[kennyja]

Hi,

I am trying to get a list of user atributes for the entire AD forest. The command string that I have so far, returns all of the atributes that I want, but It only returns from the child domain that I am currently logged into.

How do get it to return result from the entire forest?

Here is the command that I am using.

dsquery.exe * -limit 0 -filter "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(mail=*))" -attr userPrincipalName title givenName initials sn mail streetAddress st postalCode co telephoneNumber ADsPath >"c:\PrimaryEmailAddresses3.txt"


What do I need to change to make it return all results from the entire forest and all child domains?

I am new to this tool. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Tonto_22]

How many domains do you have in your forest?
Is there a list of attributes you are looking to get?

If you start your command with DSQUERY USER...you can start the location in the forestroot. Then you can pipe the line to DSGET USER to pull more attributes like -email - upn - office -tel.
i.e. --> DSQUERY USER forestroot -limit 0 | DSGET USER -upn -fn -ln -tel -display -office -hmdir > C:\PrimaryEmailAddresses3.txt

[yuval]

I am also new to this and trying to learn how to use DSQuery. I also want some help here to import user details all at once. I had copied a syntax directly from the web and tried that. But it brought up weird results and not able to give me the kind of output which I am looking for. This command looks a bit complicate to use. I had tested it out with few changes but still not getting full information. Can anyone help me to understand and use the same in easier way.

[Baijayanthi]

I am giving you a link below which has a bit detail information in using the same. This page has a proper output of running this syntax and getting appropriate output from the same. It is a command line tool and to get proper result you must run this always in administrator account. If won't do the same you might not get the result. The link has all parameter details. This will help you to get the right syntax.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc725702.aspxDsquery user