Applies To: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 Finds any objects in the directory according to criteria using a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) query. Dsquery is a command-line tool that is built into Windows Server 2008. It is available if you have the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) server role installed. To use dsquery, you must run