sdonaldson07
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GetObject special characters
I am trying to get a list of Distribution List members from AD. I have a script that will pull the members, but I ran into an issue with the name of a specific DL. The name has spaces and commas in it, which is causing the script to freak out. I have tried:
I'm not sure how to get the script to read the name of the DL without freaking out over the commas. Any ideas?
Set objGroup = GetObject("LDAP://CN=First Last, First Last, First Last,OU=NAME,OU=All Users,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM")Set objGroup = GetObject('"LDAP://CN=First Last, First Last, First Last,OU=NAME,OU=All Users,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM"')Set strOUContainter = "CN=First Last, First Last, First Last,OU=NAME"
Set objGroup = GetObject("LDAP://" & strOUContainer & "," & "OU=All Users,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM")Set strOUContainter = """CN=First Last, First Last, First Last,OU=NAME"""
Set objGroup = GetObject("LDAP://" & strOUContainer & "," & "OU=All Users,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM")I'm not sure how to get the script to read the name of the DL without freaking out over the commas. Any ideas?
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Yes I am editing the names in my example. I made sure to only escape the characters separating the names, not the ones separating the object. I have tried setting up the CN as a variable and inserting it into the GetObject and I have also tried keeping the names in the GetObject and escaping the commas there. Neither method worked for me.
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Closing question.
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I tried to escape the commas like you suggested and got the following error message:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Object required: '[string: "CN=First Last\, Fir"]'
The error message did not finish the second person's first name.