On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Gil Kirkpatrick wrote: Hi Gil,
> Hi Jonas, > > I don't have any experience with Java and AD, but I can give some > sugestions. > > 1. Doing an LDAP_MOD on a value to replace it with the same value does not > actually change anything; AD throws the operation out, no timestamps are > updated, and no replication takes place. Hmm, that explains why whenChanged does not change. However, it does not explain why the 'url' attribute sometimes doesn't get updated when I set its value to the current date & time manually.. > 2. Do you have more than one DC? If so, you may be making the change on one > DC and looking for the results on another DC. If replication hasn't taken > place, you will see inconsistent results. We only have one DC in our lab environment. > 3. You might check the following MSDN article on strategies for > synchronizing AD with other data stores: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/netdir/ad/t > racking_changes.asp?frame=true Will do. Thanks! > What's the point of forcing an update of all objects every night? It seems > that would generate a lot of unnecessary processing. Well.. that can be discussed. But it is a working strategy to be able to delete/move group objects that has not been touched for a couple of days = they don't exist in the source database any more. Thanks for your help! / Jonas List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
