Vista - ADSI: Making an Explicit Call to GetInfoEx and Enumerating Results

"Rather than download most attributes of an object, you can selectively load
or refresh the local property cache with a specific attribute or set of
attributes by using the GetInfoEx method."

Desired output, the actual Active Directory values for the attributes in the
array.

CODE:
Set objUser = GetObject _
("LDAP://cn=TestUser, ou=Users, OU=Sbd, dc=us, dc=Fabrikam, dc=com")
arrAttributes = Array("description", "name")
objUser.GetInfoEx arrAttributes, 0
For Each Attribute In arrAttributes
WScript.Echo Attribute
Next

EXPECTED OUTPUT:
Account used for testing.
TestUser

ACTUAL OUTPUT:
description
name

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What am I misunderstanding? The array shouldn't actually be composed of the
strings "description" and "name" but the returned values of those AD
attributes.

"Larry" <Larry@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:74A40BA2-7F23-4CA9-B6D9-7D722E99F89E@xxxxxxThe array itself is unchanged by the GetInfoEx method. Instead, all values
are cached. You then can use the Get method to retrieve the values. For
example:
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Set objUser = GetObject _
("LDAP://cn=TestUser, ou=Users, OU=Sbd, dc=us, dc=Fabrikam, dc=com")
arrAttributes = Array("description", "name")
objUser.GetInfoEx arrAttributes, 0

For Each Attribute In arrAttributes
WScript.Echo objUser.Get("Attribute")
Next
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The main reason I am aware of to use the GetInfoEx method is to retrieve the
value of operational attributes (also called constructed). The GetInfoEx
method forces AD to calculate the values.

--
Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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"Richard Mueller [MVP]" <rlmueller-nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in
message news:utsLPVuWJHA.5064@xxxxxxI should point out that in this case, with attributes description and name,
the GetInfoEx method is not required. It simply loads the attribute values
into the cache (local memory). The advantage is that all of the values are
retrieved at once, in one request to AD, rather than one request per
attribute. The Get method retrieves the values from the cache first, and
only requests from AD if the value is not already in the cache.

--
Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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Thanks for clearing that up.

"Richard Mueller [MVP]" wrote: