LDAP URI for ActiveDirectory

Question

I need to create a script that can query users on Active Directory.

Assuming:
All my users are connected to a server called "engineering.software.companyX.com".
All our PC's have domain accounts to the name above.

What LDAP URI do I use?

By "LDAP name", do you mean the distinguishedName of the object?
when I get a new PC. We join it to the domain. When we get new employees, we add them to active directory. Active Directory knows when the users password will expire, etc. I want to connect to AD but I need to use some LDAP:// format and I don't know what it should be

jscott · Answer 1 · 2012-03-02 00:09:57Z

You may use dsquery to query the AD domain. To get the distinguishedName of the computer myComputer:

dsquery computer -name "myComputer"
  CN=myComputer,CN=Computers,DC=engineering,DC=software,DC=companyX,DC=com

You can also query users by their logon name:

dsquery user -samid "Administrator"
  "CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=engineering,DC=software,DC=companyX,DC=com

Edit:

I see from the edits you just want the LDAP connection string/URI. Try this:

ldap://DC=engineering,DC=software,DC=companyX,DC=com

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