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How do I change a VBScript to read input and create an output file?

I have the following code which will determine the OU that a user is in. However, the way it's written it prompts for the username and outputs the OU via WScript.echo. How can I change this to so that it reads the input from a file and send the output to a text file? Thanks.
Option Explicit
'On Error Resume Next
Dim objConnection, objCommand, objRecordSet
Dim FindUser, strUser, strDN, arrPath, intLength, intNameLength
 
Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2
Const intForReading = 1
 
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand =   CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
 
FindUser = InputBox("Please Enter A UserName", "Find User OU")
If FindUser = "" Then
MsgBox("No UserName Was Added")
WScript.Quit
Else
strUser = FindUser
End If
 
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE 
 
objCommand.CommandText = _
    "SELECT distinguishedName FROM 'LDAP://dc=domain.com,dc=com'WHERE objectCategory='user'AND sAMAccountName='" & strUser & "'"
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
 
objRecordSet.MoveFirst
Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
    strDN = objRecordSet.Fields("distinguishedName").Value
    arrPath = Split(strDN, ",")
    intLength = Len(arrPath(1))
    intNameLength = intLength - 3
    Wscript.Echo "User :" & strUser & Right(arrPath(1), intNameLength)
    objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop

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Option Explicit
'On Error Resume Next
Dim objConnection, objCommand, objRecordSet
Dim FindUser, strUser, strDN, arrPath, intLength, intNameLength
Dim fso, ts
 
Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2
Const intForReading = 1
 
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set ts = fso.CreateTextFile("c\folder\subfolder\results.txt", True)

Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand =   CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
 
FindUser = InputBox("Please Enter A UserName", "Find User OU")
If FindUser = "" Then
MsgBox("No UserName Was Added")
WScript.Quit
Else
strUser = FindUser
End If
 
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE
 
objCommand.CommandText = _
    "SELECT distinguishedName FROM 'LDAP://dc=domain.com,dc=com'WHERE objectCategory='user'AND sAMAccountName='" & strUser & "'"
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
 
objRecordSet.MoveFirst
Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
    strDN = objRecordSet.Fields("distinguishedName").Value
    arrPath = Split(strDN, ",")
    intLength = Len(arrPath(1))
    intNameLength = intLength - 3
'    Wscript.Echo "User :" & strUser & Right(arrPath(1), intNameLength)
    ts.WriteLine "User :" & strUser & Right(arrPath(1), intNameLength)
    objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop

ts.Close
Set ts = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing
Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2
Const intForReading = 1
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand =   CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE
InName = "c:\source.txt"
OutName = "c:\destination.txt"
Set oFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set InFile = oFS.OpenTextFile(InName,1)
Set OutFile = oFS.OpenTextFile(OutName,2)
Do While Not Infile.AtEndOfStream
      strUser = InFile.ReadLine
      objCommand.CommandText = _
    "SELECT distinguishedName FROM 'LDAP://dc=domain.com,dc=com'WHERE objectCategory='user'AND sAMAccountName='" & strUser & "'"
      Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
      objRecordSet.MoveFirst
      Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
          strDN = objRecordSet.Fields("distinguishedName").Value
          arrPath = Split(strDN, ",")
          intLength = Len(arrPath(1))
          intNameLength = intLength - 3
          data =  "User :" & strUser & Right(arrPath(1), intNameLength)
          OutFile.WriteLine(data)
          objRecordSet.MoveNext
      Loop
Loop
InFile.Close
OutFile.Close
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exx1976....I used your code and it works........however the output is garbled..........do you know how to fix it so that it just displays the entire path of the user object? Thanks.
The output should be Exactly what you were getting before, I just cut and pasted in what you had before..    It looks like what you're doing is tryign to feed it a text file of user account names, and you want a text file of DN's back.  Is that correct?  If so, I have some code that will accomplish that, let me know if that's it and I'll throw it on here.

Otherwise, the line that starts with "data = " is the line to modify that controls the contents of the output file.


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I never used that script before, I just found that code on the Internet. Yeah, the DN is what I need. Thanks man.
This will output ONLY the DN, one per line.

You'll need to modify the lines "InName=" "OutName=" and "DomainName=" in order for it to work.  DomainName should be the NetBIOS name of the domain, not the FQDN.

Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2
Const intForReading = 1
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand =   CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE
InName = "c:\source.txt"
OutName = "c:\destination.txt"
DomainName = "mydomain"
Set oFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set InFile = oFS.OpenTextFile(InName,1)
Set OutFile = oFS.OpenTextFile(OutName,2)
Do While Not Infile.AtEndOfStream
      strUser = InFile.ReadLine
      data = GetObjectDN(strUser,DomainName)
    OutFile.WriteLine(data)
Loop
InFile.Close
OutFile.Close

Function GetObjectDN(strObject, strDomain)
      Const ADS_NAME_INITTYPE_GC = 3
      Const ADS_NAME_TYPE_1779 = 1
      Const ADS_NAME_TYPE_NT4 = 3
       On Error Resume Next : Err.Clear
      Set objNameTranslate = CreateObject("NameTranslate")
       objNameTranslate.Init ADS_NAME_INITTYPE_GC, ""
      objNameTranslate.Set ADS_NAME_TYPE_NT4, strdomain & "\" & strObject
      strObjectDN = objNameTranslate.Get(ADS_NAME_TYPE_1779)
      If Err.Number <> 0 Then
            strObjectDN = ""
      End If
       Set objNameTranslate = Nothing
      On Error Goto 0
       GetObjectDN = strObjectDN
End Function
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Worked like a charm. Thanks man.