I use csvde to extract data that looks like:
101000081,"CN=Czuchry\\, Michael L.,OU=psy,OU=Depts,DC=company,DC=com"
101000164,"CN=Loud\\, John,OU=lan,OU=Depts,DC=company,DC=com"
etc.

I read that into a VBscript and then based on other criteria, I want to
disable and then move the appropriate user accounts. That section of my
code looks like this:

************************
1 If status = "notactive" Then
2 strADsPath = "LDAP://" & objRecordset.Fields.Item("DN")
3 wscript.echo strADsPath
4 Set objUser = GetObject(strADsPath)
5 wscript.echo objUser
6
7 UAC = objUser.Get("userAccountControl")
8
9 objUser.Put "userAccountControl", UAC OR ADS_UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE
10 objUser.SetInfo
11
12 Set objOU =
GetObject("LDAP://ou=Mail1Disables,ou=ToBeDeleted,dc=company,dc=com")
13 objOU.MoveHere strADsPath, vbNullString
14 End if

The problem is when line 2 tries to build the correct AD path, it sticks the
two \\ characters which is invalid:
LDAP://CN=Loud\\, John,OU=lan,OU=Depts,DC=tcu,DC=edu
C:\scripts\smooth.vbs(63, 5) (null): An invalid dn syntax has been
specified.

How can I convert the \\ to just \ which is the true DN?
I suppose csvde is esc'ing the single DN during its output, but that's such
a huge pain to deal with.

I also realize I shouldn't have to do the csvde export at all, I should be
able to query all the users in AD directly and set variables for them, but I
haven't learned how to do that yet.

Re: Using CSVDE output data in VBS, problem with "\\" by Bryan

Bryan
Fri Feb 06 15:23:53 CST 2004

The answer is:
CorrectedMail1DN = Replace(Mail1DN,"\\","\")

damn.. i should have taken a class in this

"Bryan Lucas" <b.lucas@tcu.edu> wrote in message
news:eKC7S1O7DHA.1460@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I use csvde to extract data that looks like:
> 101000081,"CN=Czuchry\\, Michael L.,OU=psy,OU=Depts,DC=company,DC=com"
> 101000164,"CN=Loud\\, John,OU=lan,OU=Depts,DC=company,DC=com"
> etc.
>
> I read that into a VBscript and then based on other criteria, I want to
> disable and then move the appropriate user accounts. That section of my
> code looks like this:
>
> ************************
> 1 If status = "notactive" Then
> 2 strADsPath = "LDAP://" & objRecordset.Fields.Item("DN")
> 3 wscript.echo strADsPath
> 4 Set objUser = GetObject(strADsPath)
> 5 wscript.echo objUser
> 6
> 7 UAC = objUser.Get("userAccountControl")
> 8
> 9 objUser.Put "userAccountControl", UAC OR ADS_UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE
> 10 objUser.SetInfo
> 11
> 12 Set objOU =
> GetObject("LDAP://ou=Mail1Disables,ou=ToBeDeleted,dc=company,dc=com")
> 13 objOU.MoveHere strADsPath, vbNullString
> 14 End if
>
> The problem is when line 2 tries to build the correct AD path, it sticks
the
> two \\ characters which is invalid:
> LDAP://CN=Loud\\, John,OU=lan,OU=Depts,DC=tcu,DC=edu
> C:\scripts\smooth.vbs(63, 5) (null): An invalid dn syntax has been
> specified.
>
> How can I convert the \\ to just \ which is the true DN?
> I suppose csvde is esc'ing the single DN during its output, but that's
such
> a huge pain to deal with.
>
> I also realize I shouldn't have to do the csvde export at all, I should be
> able to query all the users in AD directly and set variables for them, but
I
> haven't learned how to do that yet.
>
>