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Update 12/29/2009: So i woke up this morning, checked the analytics for engineering and somebody form Channai India decided to directly link to us (wow - we have one bookmark, or maybe they just remembered the url). Congrats! We like India, they have cool technology!!!

Very useful script, especially if you need to use adsi to quickly grab the members of a particular domain group and don't want to hardcode an existing script. To run simply key in cscript domaingroupusers.vbs "domaingroup" "domainname"

The best way to use this nifty script would be to just copy the entire script in the text area below, then plop it into your favorite ide (crimson editor) and save it as which ever filename you choose. In this case, we selected domaingroupusers.vbs. Now that I look at it, we could probably have added a little more documentation as with anything we do here in technology. Nevertheless, the script is fairly elementary, but nonetheless its seemingly difficult to find easy examples. Especially ones that you can comment out or cut out the stuff you don’t need. It may also be good to do a little editing and make this thing output comma delimited strings for later use in excel or something like that.

'Objective: To enumerate the members of a domain group 'option - pull the folling attributes for a domain usergroup via winNT://' 'use UserFlags, HomeDirectory, MaxPasswordAge 'use MaxStorage, LoginScript, MinPasswordAge 'use PasswordAge, Profile, PasswordHistoryLength 'use PasswordExpired, HomeDirDrive, AutoUnlockInterval 'use LoginHours, Parameters, LockoutObservationInterval 'use FullName, PrimaryGroupID, MaxBadPasswordsAllowed 'use Description, Name, RasPermissions 'use BadPasswordAttempts, MinPasswordLength, objectSid 'def old school active directory but works like a champ. Dim Group Dim GroupName Dim GroupDomain Dim objArgs Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments GroupName =objArgs(0) GroupDomain=objArgs(1) Set Group = GetObject("WinNT://" & GroupDomain & "/" & GroupName & ",group") For Each Member in Group.Members wscript.Echo "userID: " & Member.Name wscript.echo "Member Parent: " & member.parent wscript.echo "FullName: " & member.fullname wscript.echo "Server: " & member.description if member.accountdisabled = "1" then wscript.echo "Acct = Disabled" else wscript.echo "Acct = Active" end if wscript.echo "passwordAge : " & member.passwordage if member.passwordexpired = "1" then wscript.echo "Pswd = Expired" else wscript.echo "Pswd = notExpired" end if wscript.echo "badPasswordAttempts : " & member.badpasswordattempts wscript.echo "userHomeDirectory : " & member.HomeDirectory wscript.echo "userProfileDirectory : " & member.profile wscript.echo "userHomeDirectoryDrive : " & member.homedirdrive wscript.echo "primaryGroupID : " & member.primarygroupid wscript.echo "minimumPasswordLength : " & member.minPasswordLength wscript.echo "maxPasswordAge: " & member.maxpasswordage wscript.echo "minPasswordAge: " & member.minpasswordage wscript.echo "minPasswordHistoryLength: " & member.passwordhistorylength wscript.echo "lockoutInterval: " & member.AutoUnlockInterval wscript.echo "lockoutObservationInterval: " & member.LockoutObservationInterval wscript.echo "badPasswordsAllowed: " & member.maxBadPasswordsAllowed wscript.echo vbnewline Next

Question for the masses, how are you all displaying your code on your websites? Drupal has some nifty context highlighters, but all of which seem to create super messy html that is hard to cut and paste. One would be more inclined to use but I’m sure there are some SEO tools out there that would disagree and have some nutty explanation --- “beaker that’s you”.