Vista - problem exporting OU users with filter = array("user") command

Hello Scripters.

I have a single windows 2003 ad server with exchange 2003 installed in
a testbed.
I am trying to write a script to list all users in a a specific OU. So
far my script will list all objects in an ou. But if I add the
"objOU.filter=Array("user") command , it gives me not only the users
in the ou but also the computer accounts.

I have one user account and one computer account and when I run this
code it lists BOTH the user AND the computer account. What am I doing
wrong if I only want it to list the user accounts?

here is my code

------------------------------------------------------------------

Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://OU=student,OU=HS,DC=mydomain,DC=com")
objOU.filter= Array("User")

For Each obj In objOU
WScript.Echo obj.cn
Next

-------------------------------------------------------------------

I have googled everything I can get my hands on and all seem to say
that filter=Array("user") should be sufficient ...

any feedback would be appreciated.

-MC

"M.C.625569" <MCAntropy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7827e400-2201-4da7-90ab-5e32ee82dc23@xxxxxxThe problem is that computer objects have objectClass "user". The
objectClass attribute is multi-valued. For user objects objectClass = top,
person, organizationalPerson, user. For computer objects objectClass = top,
person, organizationalPerson, user, computer.

If you filter on objectClass = computer, you get only computers. objectClass
= group yields only groups. But objectClass = user yields both user and
computer objects.

The best solution I know for your snippet is to check the Class property
method of the object. This returns the most specific value of the
objectClass attribute. That is, for computer objects it returns "computer",
but for user objects it returns "user". For example:
========
Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://OU=student,OU=HS,DC=mydomain,DC=com")
objOU.filter= Array("User")

For Each obj In objOU
If (obj.Class = "user") Then
WScript.Echo obj.cn
End If
Next
=========
The comparison is case sensitive. For organization unit objects the Class
method returns "organizationalUnit".

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

Thanks very much.


On Feb 17, 4:51*pm, "Richard Mueller [MVP]" <rlmueller-
nos...@xxxxxx> wrote: