Directory Services

Exporting Active Directory Objects

[This documentation is preliminary and subject to change.]

This example uses DSDE to export employee data to a file from the fabrikam.com Active Directory domain.

The following example runs from a command line. To open a command prompt window, click Start on the taskbar and then click Command Prompt.

C:\Documents and Settings\MyUserName> cd \program files\microsoft\dsde
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\DSDE> dsde /mode export 
									/baseDN CN=Users,DC=fabrikam,DC=com 
									/scope oneLevel 
									/protocol LDAP 
									/output employees.xml 
									/attributes name,sn,givenName,title,telephoneNumber,objectClass

Note  For clarity, the command line is shown divided into several lines. Normally, it will be entered all on one line.

The command line options used in this example perform the following functions:

For an example that uses alternate credentials, see Using Alternate Credentials.

The following is a partial listing of the resulting employees.xml output file:

<batchResponse xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
			 xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
			 xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:DSML:2:0:core">
  <searchResponse>
	<searchResultEntry dn="CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=fabrikam,DC=com">
	<attr name="objectClass">
		<value>top</value>
		<value>person</value>
		<value>organizationalPerson</value>
		<value>user</value>
	</attr>
	<attr name="name">
		<value>Administrator</value>
	</attr>
	</searchResultEntry>
	...  
	<searchResultEntry dn="CN=Jeff Smith,CN=Users,DC=fabrikam,DC=com">
	<attr name="objectClass">
		<value>top</value>
		<value>person</value>
		<value>organizationalPerson</value>
		<value>user</value>
	</attr>
	<attr name="sn">
		<value>Smith</value>
	</attr>
	<attr name="title">
		<value>Developer</value>
	</attr>
	<attr name="telephoneNumber">
		<value>(425) 555-0174</value>
	</attr> 		 
	<attr name="givenName">
		<value>Jeff</value>
	</attr>
	<attr name="name">
		<value>Jeff Smith</value>
	</attr>
	</searchResultEntry>
	...
	<searchResultDone>
	<resultCode code="0" descr="success" />
	</searchResultDone>
  </searchResponse>
</batchResponse>