I am loosing my hair on VBScript. How the heck can I pass a reference as return value of a function?
Currently my code looks like this:
Set objUser = FindUser("bendert")
REM Searches Directory for the User
Function FindUser(UserLoginName)
Wscript.Echo "Querying AD to retrieve user-data"
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConnection.Open "Provider=ADsDSOObject;"
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
'Get user Using LDAP/ADO. There is an easier way
'to bind to a user object using the WinNT provider,
'but this way is a better for educational purposes
Set oRoot = GetObject("LDAP://rootDSE")
'work in the default domain
sDomain = oRoot.Get("defaultNamingContext")
Set oDomain = GetObject("LDAP://" & sDomain)
sBase = "<" & oDomain.ADsPath & ">"
'Only get data for login name requested
sFilter = "(&(sAMAccountName="& UserLoginName &")(objectClass=user))"
sAttribs = "adsPath"
sDepth = "subTree"
sQuery = sBase & ";" & sFilter & ";" & sAttribs & ";" & sDepth
WScript.Echo "LDAP Query is:" & sQuery &""
objCommand.CommandText=sQuery
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
FindUser = GetObject(objRecordSet.Fields("adspath"))
WScript.Echo "You E-Mail Address is: " & objUser.EmailAddress
objConnection.Close
End Function
Unfortunatley VBScript throws an error on the line where I make an assignment to the function's return value.
FindUser = GetObject(objRecordSet.Fields("adspath"))
The Error looks like "wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment".
What am I doing wrong?
Looks like you need:
Set FindUser = GetObject(objRecordSet.Fields("adspath"))
Set FindUser = ...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4afksd44%28VS.85%29.aspx
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I am loosing my hair on VBScript. How the heck can I pass a reference as return value of a function?
Currently my code looks like this:
Set objUser = FindUser("bendert")
REM Searches Directory for the User
Function FindUser(UserLoginName)
Wscript.Echo "Querying AD to retrieve user-data"
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConnection.Open "Provider=ADsDSOObject;"
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
'Get user Using LDAP/ADO. There is an easier way
'to bind to a user object using the WinNT provider,
'but this way is a better for educational purposes
Set oRoot = GetObject("LDAP://rootDSE")
'work in the default domain
sDomain = oRoot.Get("defaultNamingContext")
Set oDomain = GetObject("LDAP://" & sDomain)
sBase = "<" & oDomain.ADsPath & ">"
'Only get data for login name requested
sFilter = "(&(sAMAccountName="& UserLoginName &")(objectClass=user))"
sAttribs = "adsPath"
sDepth = "subTree"
sQuery = sBase & ";" & sFilter & ";" & sAttribs & ";" & sDepth
WScript.Echo "LDAP Query is:" & sQuery &""
objCommand.CommandText=sQuery
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
FindUser = GetObject(objRecordSet.Fields("adspath"))
WScript.Echo "You E-Mail Address is: " & objUser.EmailAddress
objConnection.Close
End Function
Unfortunatley VBScript throws an error on the line where I make an assignment to the function's return value.
FindUser = GetObject(objRecordSet.Fields("adspath"))
The Error looks like "wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment".
What am I doing wrong?
Looks like you need:
Set FindUser = GetObject(objRecordSet.Fields("adspath"))
Set FindUser = ...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4afksd44%28VS.85%29.aspx
I am creating a script that will allow me to enter a username in our domain, and have it look up attributes from their AD profile.
So first I am getting the users' DN. Once I have that - I can run;
Set objAD = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & ***I NEED DN HERE***)
and query specific attributes to be output.
So what I need to do is somehow get the DN into a variable to put into the LDAP query. I know (I think) I need to get it from the Do Loop below, but am having a complete blank and can't figure out how to just put the whole DN into a variable.
Username = InputBox("Enter UserName to lookup...")
Set rootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
base = "<LDAP://" & rootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext") & ">"
fltr = "(&(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=Person)" & "(sAMAccountName=" & UserName & "))"
attr = "distinguishedName,sAMAccountName"
scope = "subtree"
Set conn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
conn.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set cmd = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set cmd.ActiveConnection = conn
cmd.CommandText = base & ";" & fltr & ";" & attr & ";" & scope
Set rs = cmd.Execute
Do Until rs.EOF
WScript.Echo rs.Fields("distinguishedName").Value
rs.MoveNext
Loop
rs.Close
conn.Close
In case anyone has the same problem - it was an easy fix.
Just needed to write it to a variable instead of echoing.
Do Until rs.EOF
strDN = rs.Fields("distinguishedname").value
rs.MoveNext
Loop
I'm trying to write a vb script that prompts a user for a schema attribute which I'll call bID and checks that the person with that bID is in active directory. I really have no idea how to get started, there are plenty of examples on how to query active directory users but I havent found a good one regarding checking against specific attributes. Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated!
UPDATE:
ok heres my code so far, doesnt error out and returns 0, but I dont get a wscript.echo of the distinguished name for some reason. I included a few debugging wscript.echo's and it seems to never get into the while loop. Any ideas?
Option Explicit
GetUsers "CN=users,DC=example,DC=example,DC=example,DC=com","123456"
Function GetUsers(domainNc, ID)
Dim cnxn
Set cnxn = WScript.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
cnxn.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
cnxn.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Dim cmd
Set cmd = WScript.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
cmd.ActiveConnection = cnxn
cmd.CommandText = "<LDAP://" & domainNc & ">;(&(objectCategory=user)(objectClass=user) (employeeNumber=" & ID & "));distinguishedName;subtree"
WScript.Echo cmd.CommandText
cmd.Properties("Page Size") = 100
cmd.Properties("Timeout") = 30
cmd.Properties("Cache Results") = False
WScript.Echo "setting cmd.properties"
Dim rs
Set rs = cmd.Execute
WScript.Echo "rs object set"
While Not rs.eof
On Error Resume Next
WScript.Echo "while loop start"
Wscript.Echo rs.fields("distinguishedName".Value)
rs.MoveNext
If (Err.Number <> 0) Then
WScript.Echo vbCrLf& "Error # "& CStr(Err.Number)& " "& Err.Description
Else
On Error GoTo 0
End If
Wend
WScript.Echo "while loop end"
rs.close
WScript.Echo "rs object closed"
cnxn.Close
Set rs = Nothing
Set cmd = Nothing
Set cnxn = Nothing
End Function
Here's some vbscript that will find all users with bID=FooVal and write their DN out
Function GetUsers(domainNc, bIdVal)
Dim cnxn
Set cnxn = WScript.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
cnxn.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
cnxn.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Dim cmd
Set cmd = WScript.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
cmd.ActiveConnection = cnxn
cmd.CommandText = "<LDAP://" & domainNc & ">;(&(objectCass=user)(objectCategory=person)(bid=" & bidVal & "));distinguishedName;subtree"
cmd.Properties("Page Size") = 100
cmd.Properties("Timeout") = 30
cmd.Properties("Cache Results") = False
Dim rs
Set rs = cmd.Execute
While Not rs.eof
Wscript.Echo rs.fields("distinguishedName").Value
rs.MoveNext
Wend
rs.close
cnxn.Close
Set rs = Nothing
Set cmd = Nothing
Set cnxn = Nothing
End Function
I need vbscript that will do an LDAP query using a displayname, and retrieve the SamAccountName for me.
Something like this should do it:
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Open "Provider=ADsDSOObject;"
objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
strDomainName = "dc=YOURDOMAIN,dc=com"
strUserCN = "FIRSTNAME LASTNAME"
objCommand.CommandText = "<LDAP://" & strDomainName & ">;(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(cn=" & strUserCN & "));samAccountName;subtree"
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
If Not objRecordset.EOF Then
WScript.Echo objRecordSet.Fields("samAccountName")
End If
objConnection.Close
Set objRecordSet = Nothing
Set objConnection = Nothing
Set objCommand = Nothing
Great script ( and thankyou ) but at the moment only shows the first result in the recordset - the displaying the output bit needs to something more like this:
DO until objRecordset.EOF = TRUE
WScript.Echo objRecordSet.Fields("samAccountName")
objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop
I am parsing log messages about changes to user accounts on a windows system.
I want to notify the user about the changes so I need to retrieve their personal
information (First,Last, E-Mail) from Active Directory.
I already found a way to retrieve the username but that is only via WMI and not ADSI:
Function FindUser(Message)
Dim objWMIService
Dim strAccountRegex
Dim objRegex
Dim objMatch
Dim strComputer
Dim objUser
Dim objShell
strAccountRegex = "(\%\{[A-Z,0-9,\-]*\})"
strComputer = "."
Wscript.StdOut.writeLine "Querying WMI to retrieve user-data"
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objRegex = new RegExp
objRegex.Pattern= strAccountRegex
for each objMatch in objRegex.Execute(Message)
REM Wscript.StdOut.writeLine "Found an Account ID: " & objMatch.value
Dim strSID
strSID=NormalizeSID(objMatch.value)
REM Wscript.Echo "SID after escaping: " & strSID
Set objUser = objWMIService.Get _
("Win32_SID.SID='" & strSID & "'")
next
FindUser=objUser.ReferencedDomainName & "\" & objUser.AccountName
End Function
It works fine, but I would like to do it via Active Directory instead of going via WMI.
Can you help me?
OK. I found a way to do this via Active Directory.
For compeleteness here is the code:
REM Converts the SID into a from, that can be processed by WMI
Function NormalizeSid(strSidToNormalize)
Dim regEx,strReplace
strReplace=""
' Create regular expression.
Set regEx = New RegExp
regEx.Global = True
regEx.Pattern = "(%|{|})"
regEx.IgnoreCase = True
' Make replacement.
NormalizeSid = regEx.Replace(strSidToNormalize, strReplace)
End Function
REM Searches for a SID the in the Message that was passed as argument
REM SID returned will be of the form %{S-1-5-21-3968247570-3627839482-368725868-1110}
REM NOTE: Neither WMI nor ADSI will accept this. Use NormalizeSid like in FindUser
Function FindSidInMessage(Message)
Dim strAccountRegex
Dim objRegex
Dim objMatch
Dim strSID
strAccountRegex = "(\%\{S\-[,0-9,\-]*\})"
Set objRegex = new RegExp
objRegex.Pattern= strAccountRegex
for each objMatch in objRegex.Execute(Message)
REM Wscript.StdOut.writeLine "Found an Account ID: " & objMatch.value
strSID=objMatch.value
next
FindSidInMessage=strSID
End Function
REM Searches Directory for the User matching the SID passed as parameter
Function FindUser(userSID)
Dim normalizedSID
Dim objUser
normalizedSID=NormalizeSid(userSID)
Wscript.Echo "SID after escaping: " & normalizedSID
Wscript.StdOut.writeLine "Querying AD to retrieve user-data"
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://<SID="& normalizedSID & ">")
FindUser=objUser.EmailAddress
End Function
Hope this will be useful to others.