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Here in his own words and code is Kevin’s admin script:

Many
scripts that you can download or get from other sources, hard code-in the
domain information. To use the script quickly, one tends to merely hard code-in
the current domain information.

If as a
consultant, you travel from client to client, you change locations (and
domains) frequently, re-keying the information becomes annoying. Also if I
share a script, telling the recipient, change
this line for your domain, becomes a necessity.

I have a
script called GetDomain.vbs.
(Listing A) It generates the domain
name in a variety of ways. I merely copy the appropriate information into my
scripts and voila—they are now domain generic and portable.

Listing A

–==[GetDomain.vbs]==–

‘get the DNS domain name and the netbios domain name

‘* find domain name – LDAP

   dim strBaseDN, strDNSDomain, oRootDSE

   Set oRootDSE = GetObject(“LDAP://rootDSE”)

   strBaseDN = “LDAP://” & oRootDSE.Get(“defaultNamingContext”)

   strDNSDomain = oRootDSE.Get(“defaultNamingContext”)

‘* use this line ” & strDNSDomain

   msgbox “User DNS domain = ” & oRootDSE.Get(“defaultNamingContext”)

 

‘* find domain name – Dotted – need LDAP domain as well for this part

   dim arrDomain, intCountstrDotDomain

   arrDomain = split(oRootDSE.Get(“defaultNamingContext”), “,”)

   for intCount = 0 to ubound(arrDomain)

    strDotDomain = strDotDomain &  “.” & mid(arrDomain(intcount),4)

  next

    strDotDomain = mid(strDotDomain,2)

  msgbox “Dotted Domain = ” & strDotDomain

 

‘* find domain name – NetBIOS

  dim WshNetwork, strDomainName

  Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Network”)

  strDomainName = WshNetwork.UserDomain

 

  msgbox “User NetBIOS domain = ” & WshNetwork.UserDomain