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Problem Statement

In writing some provisioning code in a metaverse extension, you can come across a problem while attempting to create the DN for an Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) Management Agent. 

Debugging the code shows a "DN <name of DN> is not valid" message

 

Error message

Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.InvalidDNException was caught
Message=DN "CN=LastName, FirstName,ou=users,dc=devdomain,dc=local" is not valid.
Source=mmsscpth
MAName=ADLDS
StackTrace:
at Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.Impl.ScriptHost.TransformDNToStoreForm(ManagementAgent pMA, String pstrDN)
at Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.Impl.ManagementAgentImpl.CreateDN(String dn)
at Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.Impl.ConnectedMAImpl.CreateDN(String dn)
at Mms_Metaverse.MVExtensionObject.Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.IMVSynchronization.Provision(MVEntry mventry) in C:\Provisioning Code\MVExtension\MVExtension.cs:line 89
InnerException:

 

GOAL

 Here is what we want the DN to look like

CN=LastName, FirstName, OU=Users, DC=devdomain, DC=local

 

CODE

string rdn = "CN=" + mventry["CN"].Value.ToString();
string container = "ou=users,dc=dev,dc=local";
dn = ManagementAgent.CreateDN(rdn + "," + container);

 

Resolution

We had to escape the "," that was in the CN.  In Visual C#, you will need to escape the escape character.  You can do this in one of two ways.

  1. rdn = rdn.Replace(",", "\\,")  or 
  2. rdn = rdn.Replace(",", @"\,")

Once we updated the code and then re-compiled, the error message went away.

 

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