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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:34:51+00:00

I have the following code to convert a distinguishedName to a sAMAccountName: Dim de

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I have the following code to convert a distinguishedName to a sAMAccountName:

Dim de As New DirectoryEntry('LDAP://' & stringDN) Return CType(de.Properties('samaccountname')(0), String)

It works great for every DN I pass it, except for one. We have an AD group on our domain that has a ‘/’ in it – call it ‘Programmers/DBAs’. The DN for this group is ‘Programmers/DBAs,OU=User Groups,DC=mydomain,DC=local’. When I try to use this DN as the stringDN above, I get a COMException of ‘Unknown error (0x80005000)’.

Every other group/user in my domain works fine, and I’ve duplicated the issue on our test domain, where renaming the group so it doesn’t contains a ‘/’ resolves the problem. However, I’m not able to do this in production, so I’m stuck.

Can I escape this ‘/’ somehow? I’ve got to believe there’s a solution around this so that I can get the properties of this group properly.

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  1. Have you tried doing:

    Dim de As New DirectoryEntry('LDAP://' & stringDN.Replace( '/', '\/' )) Return CType(de.Properties('samaccountname')(0), String)
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