Code Error 800A000D – Type Mismatch

Runtime Error 800A000D – Type mismatch

The runtime error 800A000D is straightforward to solve.  The secret is to read the Windows Script Error message carefully, then locate the line number with the Type Mismatch.

Introduction To Error Code 800A000D

This runtime error, 800A000D occurs when you execute a VBScript.  My suggestion is that there is a VBScript statement that does not understand a keyword you are using in your script.  Alternatively, you may not be running the script as an ordinary user and not as an Administrator.

The Symptoms You Get 800A000D

The script does not execute as you hoped, instead you get a Microsoft VBScript runtime error.  One possibility is that you are using a WSH object or method that has been misspelt.

Chuck kindly wrote in saying that another cause maybe that you are logged on as ordinary user, and not an Administrator.

The Cause of Code 800A000D

Your VBScript contains an illegal method, probably due to a typing mistake, an extra letter.  Look for a clue opposite the phrase Error: Type mismatch….  In particular, double check the spelling of your objects.

Note 1:  Source: Microsoft VBScript runtime error.  This is not a syntax error in the sense of a missing bracket, more a typo in the keyword mentioned in the Error: line of your WSH Message.

Note 2:  Error: Type mismatch: ‘Join’.  Chuck says this could mean that you are logged on as an ordinary user and not an administrator.

Note 3:  What I have found, is that there need not be any errors per se in the script in order to receive the type mismatch join error. But what the cause has been for two of my recent experiences, is that the user in question, is only a part of a single group that isn’t

1. A domain built-in group.
2. Query based distribution groups.

The join statement fails in this case because the CurrentUser.MemberOf only contains a single value so when it tries to append the next value, there is no array for it to search through. One fix would be to add error handling around this statement, so that if it fails, it runs the same line except without the join statement. The other option is of course to ensure your users are a part of more than one security or static distribution group. I haven’t experimented with whether local domain, global or universal have an effect on this either, but I would imagine not.
Nathan Bicknell

The Solution of Runtime Error 800A000D

Check the spelling of your variables and methods.  Look for clues particularly the Line: number and check the Char: references.  In the example it is Line: 14  Char: 1.  In this instance the:  ‘Error: Type mismatch: ‘CreateeObject” tells us where the mistake is to be found. 

In the case of runtime errors you can use this work around.  Add this line: On Error Resume Next.  A better technique would have to employ error correcting code.

Try logging on as an Administrator, especially if your error says: Error: Type mismatch: ‘Join’.  (My screen shot says Error: Type mismatch: ‘CreateeObject’ – clearly my error is a typo.  CreateObject.

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Example 1 of Error 800A000D Script

Error: CreateeObject- Extra letter e.  Look on line 14.

Correction: CreateObject – Corrected, letter e removed

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Example 2 of Error 800A000D Script

In this example, the VBScript runtime error message displays not only the line number but also the error string.

On this occasion, the fault is a $ (dollar) where VBScript expects an & (ampersand).

Actually, there is another mistake in line 10 it should be:
Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://"& strServer & " RootDSE")

Note the position of the two sets of speech marks.

Example 3 of Type Mismatch

strNewXP = strNewXP + intComputerNum

To join the two variables, I should have used was ampersand (&) not plus (+)

Solution

strNewXP = strNewXP & intComputerNum

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Do you need additional help?

• For interpreting the WSH messages check Diagnose 800 errors.
• For general advice try my 7 Troubleshooting techniques.
• See master list of 0800 errors.
• Codes beginning 08004…
• Codes beginning 08005…
• Codes beginning 08007…
• Codes beginning 0800A…

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