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(null): 0x80005000 what is this telling me

Have a script which reads in two excell spreadsheets then would like to move computers into the correct OU.  Issue is when I try to set objTargetOU it appears to give me a null value.

WScript.Echo "Moving " & strComputerADsPath & " to " & strOUADsPath
'------Note : Echo returns expected response

Set objTargetOU = GetObject(strOUADsPath)
objTargetOU.Movehere strComputerADsPath, vbNullString

Get a (null): 0x80005000 what is this telling me

 
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What are the values of:

strOUADsPath
strComputerADsPath

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strOUADsPath= "LDAP://" & objOUs(objComputers(strComputer)) & "," & strDNSDomain

which equals LDAP://OU=TESTDEST, DC=tal, DC=dom and we echo it to prove it, yet
 
Set objTargetOU = GetObject(strOUADsPath) gives us the null
 Set objTargetOU = GetObject(LDAP://OU=TESTDEST, DC=tal, DC=dom) does what we want it to do which move opject to this OU.
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strComputerADsPath= LDAP://CN=PCN0345,OU=Workstations,DC=tal,DC=dom
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The second parm seems to default to NULL if not passed, have you tried:

objTargetOU.Movehere strComputerADsPath

~bp
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Just did without the vbNullString
objTargetOU.Movehere strComputerADsPath
same result unfortunately
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Are there any special char in the OUs name (like "\")?
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...or in any other object...
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Just Double Checked, no extra characters
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Any chance that this is a permissions problem?  Have you tried using DSMOVE to do this from the command line just to see if it might toss up any other clues?

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Good thought, unfortunately not this case.  I thought of this also and tested it out.  Moved just fine.  May start over to see if I missed something.  Looked into what you mentioned about vbNullString not being supported, this may have something to do with it.  Thanks for you support
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Hi, the GetObject method requires a string.  This would not work

strComputerADsPath= LDAP://CN=PCN0345,OU=Workstations,DC=tal,DC=dom
Set objTargetOU = GetObject(strComputerADsPath

because strComputerADsPath is not a string.

This should work:
Set objTargetOU = GetObject("LDAP://CN=PCN0345,OU=Workstations,DC=tal,DC=dom")

as should this
strComputerADsPath = "LDAP://CN=PCN0345,OU=Workstations,DC=tal,DC=dom"
Set objTargetOU = GetObject(strComputerADsPath)

Is the OU in the same domain that you're running the script on?

Regards,

Rob.