Using the DSQUERY utility to print a system generated list of Active Directory users
DSQUERY is a command line tool that comes with Windows 2003 server. This
utility can be run locally or copied off to a domain joined XP workstation for use. To
generate a list of users from Active Directory, navigate to the utility's
directory via command prompt.
Use the folowing example to dump a list of all accounts to a .txt file named
netusers at the root of the C drive.
dsquery user -o rdn -limit 500 >C:\netusers.txt
The -o rdn parmeter will output users' full names. The default value is dn - distinguished name.
Another option is to output the list as upn, user principle name.
The -limit 500 option overrides the default 100 item return baked into the
program, use a reasonable high value to ascertian you catch all the accounts
in AD.
More options can be listed using the DSQUERY /HELP command.
