Vista Tutorial - Active Directory information

Hi,

There's a field in Active Directory Users and Computers called
'Description'. I tried using the property name 'Description' and it returns
nothing. Does anyone know what the name of the property is? Or how I can
track it down.

Thanks in advance,
JeffH

There is 100% a field called 'Description' - for both Users and Computers.

What is it that you are trying to do? Simply see if there is anything
entered? Or, are you trying to put stuff there?

Cary

"JeffH" <JeffH@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The "description" attribute is a bit unusual. It is actually a multi-valued
string attribute, even though there is never more than one value. Depending
on how you are retrieving the value this can make a difference. You probably
need to treat the value retrieved as an array. In VBScript you can use the
TypeName function to verify this. Of course, nothing is returned if there is
no value assigned.

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Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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"Cary Shultz" <cshultz@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm trying to extract information out of AD and put it into a text file. I
know the object name, and I don't know what the Field name should be.

Thanks again,
JeffH

"Cary Shultz" wrote:

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:
========
' 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
=======
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
=======
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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