Is it possible for dsquery to escape double quotes that are listed in a user account's common name? Backslashes do not seem to work. For example: CN=Jonathan "Johnny" Doe

The proper way to escape the quote character is with the backslash character, but dsquery does not do this. My solution is to redirect the output of dsquery to a text file, then modify the text file to replace all embedded quote characters with \" (not the quotes enclosing the distinguished names). Then I can pipe the contents of the file to the dsget command, for example. My discussion in a wiki documenting characters that need to be escaped in AD is linked here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5312.aspx#Command_Line_Utilities Note the filter mentioned in the link, (name=*\22*), that can be used to find all cases where the relative distinguished name includes a quote character, to assist in editing the text file. I know of no other solution. I would call this behavior of dsquery a bug. Richard Mueller - MVP Directory Services

I would agree that it's probably a bug or an oversight. Thanks.