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Extracting information from Active Directory in Server 2003

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by vabui

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I'm currently looking into retrieving specific information about user accounts in AD, particularly each user's drive mappings are. AD only lists one mapping per user account, which won't help me since some users have multiple mappings. Is there way to obtain this information remotely instead of walking to each user's computer, logging on, and checking from there?

Note: I've already tried using Dameware Exporter which I thought would work, but it does not have drive mappings as an option.

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by lowlands

Drives that a user maps, whether it be manually or through for example a logon script, are not stored in AD. I think the drives you are referring to are the home drive/directory and/or (TS) profile directory, since those are the only ones that can be set directly from the user accounts properties in AD.

All mapping are however stored in the registry on the users PC, and as long as they are logged on you should be able to read the info (I believe it's stored in the User specific registry hive).

by vabui

Hey lowlands, thanks for the response. I totally didn't realize THAT should've been my starting point. Anyhow, after realizing extracting information from AD wasn't my issue, I wrote a logon script that extracted the pertinent data and stored it to centralized file.

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