VBScript -  Use ADSI to Discover LDAP Properties

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ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces)

LDAP is a language that enables Active Directory to find, create and manipulate objects.  ADSI Edit will let you examine a user's properties and display all the LDAP properties.  Through knowing the property names, you can bulk import users from a spreadsheet using a rich selection of LDAP attributes.  The trick is getting the correct fields in the first row or header of your import file.

I have added a whole detailed section on ADSI Edit here

Example of ADSI

My tactic is to find a user in ADSI edit, for example Guy Thomas. Then I was able to match the user's properties in Active Directory Users and Computers (See here) with the LDAP attributes [Right Diagram]

LDAP Properties

For more detail, right click a user and select properties, here [below] are two examples:

The mandatory objects are worth noting

You may wish to drill down one more layer.  Here is a view of the LDAP attributes for the important DN = distinguishedName.  If it were necessary you could use ADSI Edit to actually make changes to the LDAP names.

To get a copy of ADSI Edit, either extract it from Windows Server 2003  \support folder.  Or here is a zipped copy of ADSI edit

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