Q. How can I use Microsoft Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) to disable a user account?

John Savill

September 12, 2004

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A. Assuming that you've already defined an objUser variable in a VBScript script that points to the user you want to disable, you can disable a user account by adding the following code to your script:

objUser.AccountDisabled = TrueobjUser.SetInfo

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