dsquery pipe to dsmove

I’m running a Windows Server 2003 in my Office with a DC in my Domain. I was trying to run the following dsquery on the said DC by its not working:

Quote:

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dsquery computer cn=computers,dc=na,dc=zzz,dc=com -name xxxtest*|dsmove
-newparent "ou=usa,ou=il,ou=southside,ou=computers,dc=na,dc=zzz,dc=com"

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You can see there I pipe the results of the dsquery to a dsmove command but don’t know why its not working. However the dsquery command is working good on its own, it is also able to find and return the expected result but gives me problem when trying to pipe the dsquery to a dsmove. Everytime it ends up saying “the computer object cannot be found.”


Somebody please help.

There seems to be some problem in your dsquery. The proper context for dsmove is as follows:

dsmove.exe "CN=%1,OU=aaa,DC=AA,DC=BB,DC=com" -newparent
OU=bbb,DC=AA,dc=BB,dc=com

Hello HenrikK. You need to add a space before the redirection. Which should be like this:

dsquery computer cn=computers,dc=na,dc=zzz,dc=com -name xxxtest* |dsmove
-newparent "ou=usa,ou=il,ou=southside,ou=computers,dc=na,dc=zzz,dc=com"

Hope it helps. let me know the results.

I know almost nothing about vbscript but I love my .bat files. Here's what I came up with:

--start--

@echo off
:again
dsquery computer -limit 1 cn=computers,DC=vprodemo | dsmove -new parent ou=validation,dc=vprodemo
if errorlevel 0 goto again

--end--

this moves the computer accounts one at a time. Once they are all moved dsmove fails and the .bat ends.

so here's the problem. When DSQUERY pipes the output to DSMOVE, it is failing to put the DN of the found object in quotes.

that's why you get an error
dsmove failed:`CN=Tom Jones,OU=Blah,OU=ManagedUsers,DC=teach,DC=foo,DC=bar' is an unknown parameter.

it should be sending "CN=Tom Jones,OU=Blah,OU=ManagedUsers,DC=teach,DC=foo
t,DC=bar"

The best way I've found to do this same iteration is, as others have suggested, by reversing it. Call DSMOVE and pull in the DSquery with a for command

for /f "Tokens=*" %s in ('dsquery computer -limit 1 cn=computers,DC=vprodemo') do dsmove %s -newparent ou=validation,dc=vprodemo


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