How Can I Determine the OU a User Account Belongs To?

re: How Can I Determine the OU a User Account Belongs To?

Alex Cooksey — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:16:57 GMT

In the "Find Users" function of AD, after searching for the user, you can change the View > Choose Columns > and then add the column "Distinguished users". This will give you the "CN=Domain Users,CN=Users,CN=NY Office.." etc. and you can then find the location of the user account by following the path given in the distinguished name.

If I've offered an answer that was not asked above is too simple, just ignore this..

re: How Can I Determine the OU a User Account Belongs To?

Tanskie — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:34:43 GMT

Nice one! how about if you have a list of users on an excel file? How can we modify the script that it will update the excel file with the OU path of the user?

re: How Can I Determine the OU a User Account Belongs To?

IamMred — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:51:16 GMT

No problem, glad you got it working.

re: How Can I Determine the OU a User Account Belongs To?

Evan Sullivan — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:53:01 GMT

I got it working, sorry!

re: How Can I Determine the OU a User Account Belongs To?

Evan Sullivan — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:33:27 GMT

Sorry, Line 13 which is:

"SELECT distinguishedName FROM 'LDAP://dc=DOMAIN,dc=local' “ & _"

re: How Can I Determine the OU a User Account Belongs To?

Evan Sullivan — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:31:45 GMT

I am trying to use this script, I replaced for my domain, but I am getting "Unterminated string constant" on line 11 Char 71.

Any help?