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How do you recursively search an Active Directory Global Groups from a CSV (or lookup table) file?

ajdyer2000
Path Finder

Hi,

I'm currently using this command to search the entire domain for Group memberships. It only gives me user objects directly in the group but does not know about nested groups or nested group members.

| ldapsearch search="(&(objectClass=group) (cn=*))" attrs="member,sAMAccountName" basedn="DC=ad,DC=win,DC=123,DC=org" |table dn,member,sAMAccountName| mvexpand member 

I would like to be able to:

1: Report on only Global Groups contained in a CSV file or lookup table (from a separate search)
2: Include "Nested Group Members" (recursive search).

Thanks for all the help i get from this forum (it really saves my butt)
Alan

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p_gurav
Champion

Did yoy try query in this example:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SA-LdapSearch/2.1.8/User/Theldapfetchcommand#Examples

Note: Change parameter according to your environment

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