Comments on: How to retrieve a list of Computer Accounts from Active Directory

By: Bill Scrivener

Bill Scrivener — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:23:46 +0000

Where and how exactly do you set the MaxPageSize to be greater than 1000? When I execute this PS, I only get 1000 names back, and I know there are more than 1000 computers in our AD. Thanks.

By: Jesse Hamrick

Jesse Hamrick — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:50:58 +0000

Running the script I received over three thousands results. If you want to set the MaxPageSize.

MaxPageSize = 1000
“The maximum number of objects that are returned in a single search result, independent of how large each returned object is. To perform a search where the result might exceed this number of objects, the client must specify the paged search control.” -BSonPosh

RFC for paged request:
http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=2696

By: JC

JC — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:28:52 +0000

What about Paged Queries ?
My AD only returns the 1st 1000 objects (as it should)…

By: JKW

JKW — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:31:55 +0000

I found Quest’s tombstone (not the actual name) cmdlet to be faulty. As such, I decided not to use any of their other cmdlets.

By: Jesse Hamrick

Jesse Hamrick — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:27:59 +0000

Steven, Thanks for the additional info. Custom cmdlets are a great feature of PowerShell. In fact, if you are savy with C# programming you can build your own cmdlets just like Quest. Here is the new developers book for PowerShell Programming...

By: Steven Murawski

Steven Murawski — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:14:21 +0000

That is one way to do it. Another would be Get-QADComputer, which is a cmdlet supplied by Quest (for free!). Their cmdlets make working with Active Directory much, much easier, and turn your above script into “Get-QADComputer | Select-Object -Property name” for the same result.

By: Tom Moreau

Tom Moreau — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:09:35 +0000

Very kewl!