I thought he said user-specific   "  *I have ONE user where it bombs out* "

You could always have a crazy path in the machine name too I 'spose


On 20 May 2013 14:37, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, but he did say it was machine specific... :D
>
>
>  On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:24 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>  The user probably has some crazy character in their account name like
>> an "&" or something
>>
>> (Just a total guess based on the fact you didn't provide the error) :-)
>>   On 20 May 2013 14:13, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  I run this script on all my workstation systems, and it works
>>> flawlessly for over 500 systems, but I have ONE user where it bombs out
>>> with an error and AD is not updated. ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Dim ad, objUser, objComputer****
>>>
>>>     ****
>>>
>>>     Set ad = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")****
>>>
>>> On error resume Next****
>>>
>>>     Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & ad.UserName)****
>>>
>>> On error resume Next****
>>>
>>>     Set objComputer = GetObject("LDAP://" & ad.ComputerName)****
>>>
>>> On error resume Next ****
>>>
>>>     strMessage = objUser.CN & ", Last updated:" & Month(Now()) & "/" &
>>> Day(now()) & "/" & right(year(now()),4)****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>>     objComputer.Description = strMessage****
>>>
>>>     objComputer.SetInfo****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> I don’t even know what to troubleshoot. This VPN script is applied via
>>> GPO startup script, and runs only on workstation OS systems as the WMI
>>> filter is: select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where not (name like
>>> "%server%").   ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> **·         **We have other system like this (perhaps slightly
>>> different software load, it’s a developers’ m machine) that the script runs
>>> on successfully****
>>>
>>> **·         **Scripts runs fine for this user if he logs onto a
>>> different machine****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> It comes down to likely some piece of installed software is tripping it
>>> up, but there is nothing in the event logs.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Anyone?****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Dave****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *James Rankin*
>> Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS)
>> http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
>>
>
>


-- 
*James Rankin*
Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS)
http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk

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