How to fetch users from an Active Directory Organisational Unit having '//' in its name

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I have an Organizational Unit in my Active Directory having '//' in its name for example 'Turbo//Boost'.

and when I try to find users using directory searcher it throws error

Unknown Error(0x80005000)

Any idea how can I solve this issue?

Thanks.

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asked on Stack Overflow Sep 19, 2011 by BreakHead • edited Sep 19, 2011 by abatishchev

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If you have forward slashes in your OU name, you need to "escape" those characters when searching by prepending them with a backslash.

So try searching for : ou=Turbo\/\/Boost - that should work.

See the Characters to Escape page by Richard Mueller for a complete list of all "dangerous" characters that need to be escaped in LDAP.

answered on Stack Overflow Sep 19, 2011 by marc_s
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I think its a bad practice to have // in a AD objects name. Its also used in netbios names.

answered on Stack Overflow Sep 19, 2011 by Max

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