Dumbass newbie question

Hi There,

I found some VB the other day within the Script Centre repository to bring
me the members of distribution lists. It worked well the other day. When
I'm querying another domain with different naming conventions however, I'm
having problems. The main problems (I think) are the use of spaces in my OU
name, and that each DL begins with a '#' character. I found an article
within Google groups asying I should put a '\' before my '#' to cure this,
but no luck. If someone could have a look at the below and advise me of the
actual syntax I should be using, I'd be very grateful.

***************************************************
On Error Resume Next

Set objGroup = GetObject _
("LDAP://cn=#inquiries@xxxxx.com,ou=Distribution
Lists,ou=us,dc=na,dc=ad,dc=xxxxx,dc=com")
objGroup.GetInfo

arrMemberOf = objGroup.GetEx("member")

WScript.Echo "Members:"
For Each strMember in arrMemberOf
WScript.echo strMember
Next
***************************************************

Many Thanks in advance,
Orb.

Richard
Thu Sep 14 21:47:59 CDT 2006

Orbital wrote:

> I found some VB the other day within the Script Centre repository to bring
> me the members of distribution lists. It worked well the other day. When
> I'm querying another domain with different naming conventions however, I'm
> having problems. The main problems (I think) are the use of spaces in my
> OU
> name, and that each DL begins with a '#' character. I found an article
> within Google groups asying I should put a '\' before my '#' to cure this,
> but no luck. If someone could have a look at the below and advise me of
> the
> actual syntax I should be using, I'd be very grateful.
>
> ***************************************************
> On Error Resume Next
>
> Set objGroup = GetObject _
> ("LDAP://cn=#inquiries@xxxxx.com,ou=Distribution
> Lists,ou=us,dc=na,dc=ad,dc=xxxxx,dc=com")
> objGroup.GetInfo
>
> arrMemberOf = objGroup.GetEx("member")
>
> WScript.Echo "Members:"
> For Each strMember in arrMemberOf
> WScript.echo strMember
> Next
> ***************************************************

The "#" character does need to be escaped with "\". However, I doubt the
Common Name for this object as the "@xxxxx.com" string appended. I would
try:

Set objGroup = GetObject(LDAP://cn=\#inquiries,ou=Distribution
Lists,ou=us,dc=na,dc=ad,dc=xxxxx,dc=com)

If that doesn't work, look at the properties for this object in ADUC. On the
"Object" tab the "Fully qualified domain name of object" is not the
Distinguished Name, but it's close. If the FQDN is:

MyDomain.com/School/Students/#inquiries

then the Distinguished Name is:

cn=\#inquiries,ou=Students,ou=School,dc=MyDomain,dc=com

--
Richard
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net

Orbital
Fri Sep 15 03:01:01 CDT 2006

Hi Richard,

Thanks very much for replying, very kind. I'll give this a whirl and see
how I get on.


Thanks again,
Orb.

"Richard Mueller" wrote:

> Orbital wrote:
>
> > I found some VB the other day within the Script Centre repository to bring
> > me the members of distribution lists. It worked well the other day. When
> > I'm querying another domain with different naming conventions however, I'm
> > having problems. The main problems (I think) are the use of spaces in my
> > OU
> > name, and that each DL begins with a '#' character. I found an article
> > within Google groups asying I should put a '\' before my '#' to cure this,
> > but no luck. If someone could have a look at the below and advise me of
> > the
> > actual syntax I should be using, I'd be very grateful.
> >
> > ***************************************************
> > On Error Resume Next
> >
> > Set objGroup = GetObject _
> > ("LDAP://cn=#inquiries@xxxxx.com,ou=Distribution
> > Lists,ou=us,dc=na,dc=ad,dc=xxxxx,dc=com")
> > objGroup.GetInfo
> >
> > arrMemberOf = objGroup.GetEx("member")
> >
> > WScript.Echo "Members:"
> > For Each strMember in arrMemberOf
> > WScript.echo strMember
> > Next
> > ***************************************************
>
> The "#" character does need to be escaped with "\". However, I doubt the
> Common Name for this object as the "@xxxxx.com" string appended. I would
> try:
>
> Set objGroup = GetObject(LDAP://cn=\#inquiries,ou=Distribution
> Lists,ou=us,dc=na,dc=ad,dc=xxxxx,dc=com)
>
> If that doesn't work, look at the properties for this object in ADUC. On the
> "Object" tab the "Fully qualified domain name of object" is not the
> Distinguished Name, but it's close. If the FQDN is:
>
> MyDomain.com/School/Students/#inquiries
>
> then the Distinguished Name is:
>
> cn=\#inquiries,ou=Students,ou=School,dc=MyDomain,dc=com
>
> --
> Richard
> Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
> Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
>
>
>