[ActiveDir] read mS-DS-ReplicatesNCReason with Perl?

[Willem Kasdorp]

Hi,   I know that there are some Perl guru’s on this list, one of who’s name starts with a ‘j’ and ends in ‘oe’… so I thought I’d ask a tricky question.   I’m writing a Perl script to monitor my replication topology. One of the things I need to accomplish is to read the attribute mS-DS-ReplicatesNCReason from a connection object. This turns out to be surprisingly hard… in Perl, that is. Browsing technet gives the following trivial piece of VBS script that works just fine:   For Each objDNWithBin In objConnection.GetEx("ms-DS-ReplicatesNCReason") Wscript.Echo objDNWithBin.DNString Next   However, a similar syntax in Perl fails miserably: $o_co->GetEx("mS-DS-ReplicatesNCReason")   It returns an object of type “DN Binary”, and I cannot find a way to tell Perl how to deal with it. Robbie Allen in his excellent cookbook has a recipe involving the IadsTools dll. Is there no way around it? Is Perl really inferior to VBS in this respect? Surely not …   Thanks,