Using a Logon to Determine a Distinguished Name

Q: How can I use a logon username to determine a user's distinguished name (DN)?
A: The NameTranslate object can translate a username into a DN that you can use to reference an Active Directory (AD) account. Use the following steps:

1. Create an instance of the NameTranslate object.
2. Use the Init method to initialize the Name-Translate object.
3. Pass the user s name to the NameTranslate object s Set method.
4. Call the NameTranslate object's Get method to retrieve the user's DN.

Listings 1 and 2, GetDN.vbs and GetDN.js, show a VBScript and JScript version, respectively, of a GetDN function that follows these steps. Callout A in both listings illustrates the first two steps. (For more information about the parameters to the Initmethod, see the Microsoft article IADsNameTranslate::Init at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa706046.aspx.) . . .