Quickly query Active Directory to find users distinguished name

Pretty simple method on extracting users distinguished name (dn) data from Active Directory.


dsquery.exe * -limit 0 -filter "(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(!userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))" >"c:\activeUsers.txt"

Note: This will only extract active users. To gather a list of all users, simply run:


dsquery user


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