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vbscript to get display name out of AD using pre windows2000 name

Asked by DennisVH in VB Script, Active Directory

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The goal of the script is to read a text file with a list of pre windows 2000 user names and create another text file where the the pre windows 2000 user name and the display name are saved.

The problem is that the result that is returned doesn't match the pre windows 2000 name

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Option Explicit 
 
 
Dim objRootDSE, strDNSDomain, objCommand, objConnection 
Dim strBase, strFilter, strAttributes, strQuery, objRecordSet 
Dim strDN, strNTName, arrProxyAddrs, strProxyAddrs, strAddr 
 
' Determine DNS domain name. 
Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") 
strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext") 
 
 
' Use ADO to search Active Directory. 
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command") 
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") 
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject" 
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider" 
objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection 
' Specify the domain as the base of the search. 
strBase = "<LDAP://" & strDNSDomain & ">" 
 
 
' Filter for all users in the base. 
strFilter = "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user))" 
' The attributes to retrieve, comma delimited. 
strAttributes = "displayName,sAMAccountName" 
strQuery = strBase & ";" & strFilter & ";" & strAttributes & ";subtree" 
objCommand.CommandText = strQuery 
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000 
objCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 30
objCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = False 
'Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute 
 
Dim strPreWin2000UserName, strFullUserName	
Dim txtSource, txtDestination
Dim fso
 
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8
 
Set txtSource = fso.OpenTextFile("C:\Scripts\PreWin2000.txt", ForReading)
Set txtDestination = fso.OpenTextFile("C:\Scripts\Fullname.txt", ForWriting, True)
 
strPreWin2000UserName = txtSource.ReadLine
Do While txtSource.AtEndOfStream <> True
	'Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
	Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute 
	
	Do Until objRecordSet.Fields("sAMAccountName") = strPreWin2000UserName Or objRecordSet.EOF 
  		strDN = objRecordSet.Fields("displayName") 
  		strNTName = objRecordSet.Fields("sAMAccountName") 
	  	objRecordSet.MoveNext 
	Loop 
    txtDestination.WriteLine strNTName & ";" & strDN 
    strPreWin2000UserName = txtSource.ReadLine
    Set objRecordSet = Nothing
Loop
 
' Clean up. 
txtSource.Close
txtDestination.Close
 
objConnection.Close 
Set objRootDSE = Nothing 
Set objCommand = Nothing 
Set objConnection = Nothing 
Set objRecordSet = Nothing
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