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

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