Hi Matthias: I will get back to you as soon as I have an answer. Regards, Obaid Farooqi Escalation Engineer | Microsoft
-----Original Message----- From: Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 2:00 AM To: Obaid Farooqi Cc: [email protected]; MSSolve Case Email Subject: Re: [REG:110102774074009] "description" attribute in AD Hi Obaid, exactly, that's true. But why does the add operation allow it to be set multi-valued? Is there a reason? Or it's just a bug? Greets, Matthias Obaid Farooqi wrote: > Hi Matthias: > We have finished our investigation on your question regarding attribute > description. In a future release of MS-ADTS, the following bullet will be > added at the end of section 3.1.1.5.3.2 Constraints: > > “If the modify operation adds or replaces values of the description attribute > on a SAM-specific object (section 3.1.1.5.2.3), and results in more than one > value in the attribute, then the modification fails with > attributeOrValueExists / ERROR_DS_SINGLE_VALUE_CONSTRAINT” > > Please let me know if this answers your question. If it does, I’ll consider > this issue resolved. > > Obaid Farooqi > Escalation Engineer | Microsoft > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:11 PM > To: Interoperability Documentation Help > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: "description" attribute in AD > > Hi dochelp team, > > the "description" attribute in AD seems very special. Altough defined as > multi-valued in the schema it's defacto single-valued. > > That means: > - on LDAP entry add operations you are able to set it multi-valued > - on LDAP entry change operations you aren't - e.g. if you try to replace it > multi-valued or perform a multi-valued add you get > ERR_ATTRIBUTE_ALREADY_EXISTS. > > As far as I know I didn't find much in the docs about this strange behaviour > and as far as I can tell it only applies to "description". It would be nice > to enhance MS-ADTS regarding it and to start some investigation if it > wouldn't be better to really define it as single-valued in the schema. > > Greets, > Matthias > > Microsoft is committed to protecting your privacy. Please read the Microsoft > Privacy Statement for more information.The above is an email for a support > case from Microsoft Corp.REPLY ALL TO THIS MESSAGE or INCLUDE > [email protected] IN YOUR REPLY if you want your response added to the > case automatically. For technical assistance, please include the Support > Engineer on the TO: line. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ cifs-protocol mailing list [email protected] https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-protocol
