Accessing ActiveDirectory properties belong to objectClass=posixGroup

Question

I am trying to update the memberUid property of the posixGroup.

1. I do a directory search and find my record. If I loop through the searchresults.property I can list the values (it is defined as Multi-value) of the field.
2. I define a DirectoryEntry using the searchresults.getdirectory method.

If I do anything with the property from this directoryentry, for instance check if it exists (property.contain), or list it or try to update it I get an unknown error x'8000500C'.

The fields cn and description' do not cause this problem.

If I add other user defined properties I also get the error.

How can I work with properties belonging to this type of schema?

Answer 1

Your error looks like it is: 8000500c The Active Directory datatype cannot be converted to/from a native DS datatype

This seems to imply that the data returned is not a native AD datatype.

There seems to be a workaround at this article.