OK, so I decided to try to use VBScript to actually do something *useful*.

Big mistake.

Anyway, apparently there's some sort of way to use LDAP to look up 
properties of a user's account in Active Directory. But there's a 
problem: you can't do anything until you discover the Distinguished Name 
of the account object.

I've wasted literally 2 hours trying to find this trivial piece of 
information. Given how vitally important it is, you'd think there would 
be a field *somewhere* in the properties dialog that would tell you what 
the ****ing DN is, but noooooo...

So I see that it's supposed to be possible to solve this using VBScript 
too. There are at least a dozen websites that all contain code nearly 
identical to this:

   set trans = CreateObject("NameTranslate")
   trans.Init 3, ""
   trans.Set 3, "domain\user"
   set name = trans.Get(1)
   WScript.Echo name

Only trouble is... it doesn't work. I've tried rephrasing the code every 
way I can think of, but still all I get is "error 800A01A8 on line 4". 
Absolutely nothing I do will make this god-damned error go away so that 
I can get to the actual data I want.

I give up.

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