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Strange value for the CN attributes of some groups in Active Directory using CSVDE

I used CSVDE to export every groups of my Active Directory in a CSV file. I am looking for the CN attribute (common-Name)

In my result, i have some CN that have a strange format. (and also longer than the maximum lenght - 64 bytes)

The stranges CN look like:

X'517565416770705f40726f63c3b964757265725f2d5f61646d696e697374726174696f65f6a4c'

I can't find out what are those groups and why i get these values.

Solution

  • The value is an Hexadecimal value that can be converted to string.

    The reason why CSVDE give me an hexadecimal value is that the initial value contains an accent.