"S Garratt" <SGarratt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:26AB5AF0-8177-4F80-B571-010887EA995E@microsoft.com...
> 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.

"Jared Parsons [MSFT]" wrote:

> What's the error code id in the "Unspecified error" exception?
>
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> "S Garratt" <SGarratt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:26AB5AF0-8177-4F80-B571-010887EA995E@microsoft.com...
> > 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