Re: Problem creating computer accounts in OU containing a fwd slash ("

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"Ryan Hanisco" <RyanHanisco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:F1BD92F2-7694-4A28-A2FB-1529D628BD1A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Here is the document containing the naming rules:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909264

Thanks for the pointer. I did come across that article (until I did, I had been suspecting that forward slashes simply weren't legal/correct for OU names, which made me wonder why ADUC had allowed it).

The other possibility is that the problem is not related to that at all and
it is really elsewhere. Though I would certanly start there -- Occam's razor.

I tried renaming the OU so that it doesn't have a slash and the problem went away, then added it back and the problem returned - so that seems to pretty well isolate it.

I assume this has something to do with the fact that NTDS paths use forward, not back, slashes for object hierarchy. The forward slash in the OU name is escaped by a backslash if you look at its canonical name in ADUC, i.e. mydomain.com/ParentOU/Lab\/Testing . However, it would appear that something behind the scenes in AD that defines the join ACLs after creating the account isn't set up to do this kind of escaping, and so the computer path it tries to use for that operation fails.

Interestingly, it doesn't matter if the defined join *user* is in an OU with a slash - only the location of the computer triggers the problem.

I didn't want to burn a support case just to report this, since it doesn't really affect us in any important way, but I figured if I mentioned it here the MS devs might pick it up.
--m

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