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S Garratt - 28 Jan 2005 12:21 GMT

I can use DirectoryEntry.DeleteTree() to delete a Computer Account but when
there's a problem, the error message always seems to be "Unspecified Error".
I need to know whether I've got user credentials problems or non-existant
objects. Reading around the problem, it seems that the implementation isn't
very good and that you can get directly to ADSI using DirectoryEntry.Invoke
but I can't figure out the syntax.

Two questions:
1. Does anyone know the syntax for deleting an account using .Invoke

2. Will it give me a better error code. I've seen other pages showing
.Invoke which have returned ADSI-style 8007nnnn error codes but not for
deletes.

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Jared Parsons [MSFT] - 29 Jan 2005 00:24 GMT

What's the error code id in the "Unspecified error" exception?

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> I can use DirectoryEntry.DeleteTree() to delete a Computer Account but when
> there's a problem, the error message always seems to be "Unspecified Error".
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> .Invoke which have returned ADSI-style 8007nnnn error codes but not for
> deletes.

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S Garratt - 31 Jan 2005 11:13 GMT

There isn't one: that's the problem! I just get:

Additional information: Unspecified error.

Hence me wondering if using .Invoke would be better.

SG

> What's the error code id in the "Unspecified error" exception?
>
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> > .Invoke which have returned ADSI-style 8007nnnn error codes but not for
> > deletes.

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