Network Administrator Knowledgebase » message http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/network-administrator Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:55:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Send a Message to All Users in an OU http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/network-administrator/send-a-message-to-all-users-in-an-ou/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/network-administrator/send-a-message-to-all-users-in-an-ou/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:56:30 +0000 Michael Khanin http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/network-administrator/send-a-message-to-all-users-in-an-ou/ By using the DSQUERY command and “Net Send” we can send a message to all users in a given OU.
It’s really simple, create a script, name it NetSendOU.bat and use the following syntax:

NetSendOU OU Message

Where OU is the organizational unit, like “OU=Users,DC=AdminInfo,DC=Ca”, and Message is the message text, like “Hello from AdminInfo.ca”.

NetSendOU.bat contains:
@echo off
if {%2}=={} @echo Syntax: NetSendOU OU “Message”&exit /b 1
setlocal
set query=dsquery user %1 -o samid
set message=%2
for /f %%u in (‘%query%’) do (net send “%%u” %message%)
endlocal
exit /b 0

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