Create a user in Active Directory from an Infopath form.

Question

Hi There,

I've been searching the web for a while now and still can't seem to find anything useful on this topic.

What I am trying to create is a button in my Infopath form that will create a user account in Active Directory. The code will need to pull through information stored in the fields of the Infopath form.

I have chosen to use Visual Basic, as I believe that is a good language scripting with AD.

I have successfully run this code:

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Sub CTRL1_12_OnClick(eventObj)

MsgBox "Output: "

End Sub

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which returns: 'Output: ' in a VB dialogue box when I click on my infopath button. However, when I try:

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Set objOU=GetObject("LDAP://OU=People,OU=contoso,DC=contoso,DC=com")

Set objUser=objOU.Create("user","CN=Linda Mitchell")

objUser.Put "sAMAccountName","linda.mitchell"

objUser.SetInfo()

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All I get is an error message in Infopath:

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The following error occurred:

ActiveX component can't create object: 'GetObject' File:script.vbs Line:14

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When I put the same code in to notepad, save as a vbs file and then execute is runs fine and create a user in active directory, what I don't understand is why when I run the same code it doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Thanks Peter

Answer 1

I would recommend you check out Richard Mueller's web site - he has tons of VBScript code to do all sorts of AD stuff.

Here's a link to a page showing how to create users - is that of help?? I'm not much of a VBScript programmer, but I know Richard's stuff is usually very good and useful.

Here's his entire list of free VBScript code for you to go rummage about!

Answer 2

I have now found out what the problem was. I needed to set the form to 'full trust' Tools>form options> Security and Trust. I also had to sign the form with my certificate.

Now I am able to run the code from that button.

Answer 3

same problem. Did you get an aswer? Did you solve this issue? Richard