AD search error work-around?
If you debug the program, please check if Byte array for GUID is exactly 16
bytes long.
You may pay additional attention to those 'invisible' characters, such as
trailing blank spaces.
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Peter Wu
Microsoft Corporation
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>Subject: AD search error work-around?
>Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:11:58 -0600
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>Does anyone know how to work around this problem?
>using this function on a live Active directory returns the error -
>An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in
>mscorlib.dll
>Additional information: Byte array for GUID must be exactly 16 bytes long.
>mySearcher.FindAll()
>This only happens on user accounts that were migrated from one domain to
>another using ADMT from ms.
>Is there a way to work around this?
>Here is the complete code,
>I have this same code in C# and get the same error.
>Sub Main()
>Dim entry As New DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://my.company.com")
>Dim mySearcher As New System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher(entry)
>Dim res As DirectoryServices.SearchResult
>Dim userName As String = "(anr="
>Dim theName As String
>Console.WriteLine("Enter User to view")
>theName = Console.ReadLine()
>userName = userName + theName + ")"
>mySearcher.SizeLimit = 10
>mySearcher.Filter = userName
>For Each res In mySearcher.FindAll()
>Console.WriteLine(res.GetDirectoryEntry.Path)
>Next
