Generating LDP Dumps from PowerShell

re: Generating LDP Dumps from PowerShell

tony — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:33:55 GMT

can't you get the same result with a

dsquery -attr * command?

re: Generating LDP Dumps from PowerShell

evand — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:52:16 GMT

tr - sure, you could get roughly the same output with a syntax like:

Get-Mailbox mb1 | % { dsquery * $($_.DistinguishedName) - attr * }

But, of course that isn't using PowerShell!

re: Generating LDP Dumps from PowerShell

tony — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:40:27 GMT

ya don't get me wrong I'm a PS lover also! But I have a screwed up mentality that if it can't be done in one line then you've gone about the problem wrong. BTW I fail at this most of the time, but PS has increased my batting percentages.. which is awesome!

re: Generating LDP Dumps from PowerShell

evand — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:46:36 GMT

tr - the other key downside is that using an external exe like dsquery means you don't own the output. In my simple script all I'm doing is cracking the DirectoryEntry objects and outputting the results as text/string. But I could do lots more if I had some requirement -- filtering, reformatting, output to XML or HTML, etc. These are all things that are easy once you've got a PSObject with the results... and not as easy once you've got text-on-the-host from DSquery!

re: Generating LDP Dumps from PowerShell

WayneO — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:52:31 GMT

Very cool Evan. Thx for sharing...was looking for something like this.

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