Vista - Re: active directory question

06-07-2008

"JayJ" <JayJ@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:CFCD1602-0796-4668-B42B-5F470E4EAD90@xxxxxx

Quote:

> Thank you for the time you took to review this script. Your suggestions on
> making the script more efficient and how to handle errors better were very
> helpful.
>
> I am having trouble with the Name translate but think i have an idea that
> will work for my purposes - if I can get the correct syntax. Once i run
> the
> original script I need to query AD with the distiguised name being read
> from
> a file and return the user principal name
>
> The format of the list of names in a file called ad.txt is -
>
> CN=Smith\, Joe,OU=Users,OU=Default,DC=test,DC=com
>
> Below is what I think should work but it is failing. Can you provide any
> help with this?
> *******************************************************
> Const ForReading = 1
> Const UserFilename = "ad.txt"
>
> Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
> Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(UserFilename, ForReading)
> Do Until objTextFile.AtEndOfStream
> strUser = objTextFile.ReadLine
>
> 'it doesnt seem to like this line???
> Set objUser = GetObject _ ("LDAP://" & strUser")
>
> 'For Each strUsrName In objUser
> WScript.Echo "User Principal Name: " & strUsrName.userPrincipalName
>
> Next
>
> Loop
>
> **********************************
>
> Thank you,
>

The underscore, "_", is the line continuation character. It is used to
continue a single statement on the next line (to avoid scrolling or line
wrapping in news readers for example). The statement should be either:

Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUser")

or:

Set objUser = GetObject _
("LDAP://" & strUser")

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

06-07-2008	#1 (permalink)
Richard Mueller [MVP] n/a posts	Re: active directory question "JayJ" <JayJ@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:CFCD1602-0796-4668-B42B-5F470E4EAD90@xxxxxx Quote: > Thank you for the time you took to review this script. Your suggestions on > making the script more efficient and how to handle errors better were very > helpful. > > I am having trouble with the Name translate but think i have an idea that > will work for my purposes - if I can get the correct syntax. Once i run > the > original script I need to query AD with the distiguised name being read > from > a file and return the user principal name > > The format of the list of names in a file called ad.txt is - > > CN=Smith\, Joe,OU=Users,OU=Default,DC=test,DC=com > > Below is what I think should work but it is failing. Can you provide any > help with this? > ***************************************************** > Const ForReading = 1 > Const UserFilename = "ad.txt" > > Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") > Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(UserFilename, ForReading) > Do Until objTextFile.AtEndOfStream > strUser = objTextFile.ReadLine > > 'it doesnt seem to like this line??? > Set objUser = GetObject _ ("LDAP://" & strUser") > > 'For Each strUsrName In objUser > WScript.Echo "User Principal Name: " & strUsrName.userPrincipalName > > Next > > Loop > > ******************************** > > Thank you, > The underscore, "_", is the line continuation character. It is used to continue a single statement on the next line (to avoid scrolling or line wrapping in news readers for example). The statement should be either: Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUser") or: Set objUser = GetObject _ ("LDAP://" & strUser") -- Richard Mueller MVP Directory Services Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net --
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