Richard Mueller [MVP]

The attribute name (also called the property name) is "description". For the
names of attributes that correspond to fields in ADUC, see the first
spreadsheet in this link:

http://www.rlmueller.net/UserAttributes.htm

In VBScript the steps to retrieve description would be similar to below:
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' Bind to user object using Distinguished Name.
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://cn=Jim Smith,ou=West,dc=MyDomain,dc=com")
' Retrieve and display value of "description" attribute.
strDescription = objUser.description
Wscript.Echo strDescription
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If you have the "pre-Windows 2000 logon" name of the user, you must either
use the WinNT provider (which is slower and not recommended) or use the
NameTranslate object to convert to the Distinguished Name. In this case, the
WinNT provider exposes the property with the same name. For example, if the
NetBIOS name of the domain is "MyDomain" and the "pre-Windows 2000 logon"
name of the user is "JSmith", the following VBScript code will retrieve
description:
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' Bind to user object NT (pre-Windows 2000) Name.
Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://MyDomain/JSmith,user")
' Retrieve and display value of "description" attribute.
strDescription = objUser.description
Wscript.Echo strDescription
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If this doesn't help, we will need to see some code. For information on
using NameTranslate, see this link:

http://www.rlmueller.net/NameTranslateFAQ.htm

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Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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