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Donovan Linton - 28 Jul 2005 15:22 GMT

I writing a script to create user accounts using dsadd and exchmbx. My
problme is the UserDN, our organization uses Last Name, First fromat but I
can get dsadd to accept that here is what I've tried

dsadd user "CN=Linton, Donovan,CN=Users,DC=ad,DC=sfwmd,DC=gov"

dsadd user CN="Linton, Donovan",CN=Users,DC=ad,DC=sfwmd,DC=gov

I get error message incorrect format, I was wondering if any had any ideas
or soluitons.

Thanks,
Donovan

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Donovan Linton - 28 Jul 2005 20:56 GMT

Found it

Commas must be escaped with the backslash \ character

> I writing a script to create user accounts using dsadd and exchmbx. My
> problme is the UserDN, our organization uses Last Name, First fromat but I
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> Thanks,
> Donovan

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Paul Williams [MVP] - 28 Jul 2005 22:16 GMT

Yep. You'd want:

C:\>dsadd user "CN=Linton\, Donovan,CN=Users,DC=ad,DC=sfwmd,DC=gov"

You still need the quotes for any spaces for specific parameters.

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Jerold Schulman - 29 Jul 2005 18:27 GMT

>I writing a script to create user accounts using dsadd and exchmbx. My
>problme is the UserDN, our organization uses Last Name, First fromat but I
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>Thanks,
>Donovan

This worked:
dsadd user "CN=Linton\, Donovsan,CN=Users,DC=JSIINC,DC=ORG" -fn Donovan -ln Linton -UPN LintonD@JSIINC.COM -samid LintonD -display "Linton\, Donovsan"

I needed to escape the comma ( \, )and define the related attributes.

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