[python-win32] Creating users with ADSI

[d.w. harks]

With carefully-arranged electrons, Pierre Hj?lm wrote:
> Why does the code below give this error message?:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "usertest2.py", line 12, in ?
>     aduser.Setinfo()
>   File "<COMObject <unknown>>", line 2, in Setinfo
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0, -2147019886), None)
> 
> 
> # code
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
> 
> adsi=Dispatch("ADsNamespaces")
> ou=adsi.GetObject("","LDAP://ou=Employees,dc=test,dc=local")
> # above line changed to protect the innocent ;)
> 
> aduser=ou.Create("User","cn=test")
> 
> aduser.Put("sAMAccountName","test")
> aduser.Put("givenName","test")
> aduser.Put("sn","test")
> aduser.Put("userPrincipalName","test")
> aduser.Setinfo()
> 

try:
aduser=ou.Create("User","cn=test")
aduser.Put("sAMAccountName", "blah")
aduser.Setinfo()

aduser.Put("givenName","test)
...
aduser.Setinfo()


As to why there would need to be a separate setinfo() call to set the
samaccountname, I'm not entirely sure. I think it has to do with some extra
data sitting in the property cache, causing setinfo to get confused...

dave


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