Re: Does AD automatically sort attributes

The LDAP V3 specification and AD both specify that clients should never
assume that multiple attribute values will be returned in any predictable
order. Even if the order appears to be predictable, the client should
assume that they might be returned in a different order with each search.

Joe K.

<stootles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1137970042.756098.198840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a small script for updating AD, I have no experience with
> AD itself and am taking data from an older Netscape LDAP server and
> placing it into the AD server via the AD LDAP interface. This is being
> written in perl, and for the most part is done.
>
> One item of interest I have though is the I am writing some values into
> the ou attributes to match what we have in the older LDAP server.
> (Please confuse this with creating branches using an ou).
>
> With other LDAP servers I have worked with if I do the following:
>
> ou[0] = "ZZZZZZ"
> ou[1] = "YYYYY"
> ou[2] = "XXXXX"
>
> That is how it is written to the LDAP server and when retrieved it
> remains in that same order. This is the behaviour I expect and for some
> systems that access our LDAP servers require.
>
> Under AD though using the same code that is used to write to the other
> LDAP servers when I request the information I have just written AD has
> sorted the attribute data alphabetically (most undesirable in this
> instance).
>
> Can anyone give me advice on this behaviour from AD? Can it be disabled
> on an attribute level? Is there somewhere I can point the AD
> administrator so he can disable this behaviour?
>
> Any advice grateful,
>
> Stewart James
>


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