Active Directory

Long string error viewing/editing Group Policy in GPO editor

If you try to view/edit a GPO in the Group Policy Object Editor on Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server or Windows XP SP1, you get the following error:The following entry in the [strings] section is too long and has been truncated. Why does this happen? Older version of GPO Editor cannot interpret some string […]

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Import user attributes from OpenLDAP

Recently I imported the employeeID (and a few other attributes) from an OpenLDAP directory into Active Directory. Problem was different distinguishedName attributes in both directories – the OpenLDAP directory had a different OU structure. The Problem We have a LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) dump from OpenLDAP in the following format : dn: distinguishedName not […]

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Where’s LDIFDE on XP Professional?

The Windows XP Professional docs tell you the LDIFDE utility is avaialble on that OS, but I haven’t been able to find it. Simply copy it from a Windows Server 2003 installation – it’s in %Systemroot%\System32.

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