A trivial addition to the ISG::Win32::ActiveDirectory module of Tobias Oetiker & David Schweikert at the Swiss Polytechnic Institute. It adds a method to return an object handle instead of a distinguished name, for those times when you're going to work with everything in an OU, you don't care what the name is, and you don't want to bind to them twice.

Not tested with the 23 March 2007 update, but should work anyway.

sub AD_enumerate_O ($$) {
    my $dn = shift;
    my $type = shift;
    $dn =~ s|^(LDAP://)?|LDAP://|;
    disable_ole_warnings;
    my $ou_hand = Win32::OLE->GetObject("$dn");
    # this does not seem to work
    # $ou_hand->{Filter} = [ $type ];
    enable_ole_warnings;
    if (not $ou_hand) {
    carp "WARNING: ".Win32::OLE::LastError."\n";
    return undef;
    }
    my @list;
    foreach  my $hand ( in $ou_hand ){
    # other interesting properties are:
    # http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/netdir/adsi/iads.asp
    # also works for the 'other' properties of the entry
        next unless $hand->{Class} eq $type; #simpler than filter
    push @list, $hand;
    };
    return [ @list ];
}

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