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Asked: 2026-06-17T08:10:04+00:00

Is it possible to get multi value properties form AD like description, memberOf. if

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Is it possible to get multi value properties form AD like description, memberOf. if I run simply by adding memberOf this gives error 

select * 
FROM OPENQUERY(ADSI,'SELECT initials, samAccountName, displayName, distinguishedName, mail, memberOf FROM ''LDAP://DC=corp, DC=contoso, DC=com'' WHERE objectClass=''Person''')

Error:

Msg 7346, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Cannot get the data of the row
from the OLE DB provider “ADSDSOObject” for linked server “ADSI”.
Could not convert the data value due to reasons other than sign
mismatch or overflow.

This is because of memberOf is multi valued property in Active Directory. I am using SQL Server 2008 R2

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  1. Editorial Team

    No, you cannot do this – and there’s no “trick” or hack to get it to work, either.

    The ADSI provider for SQL Server is rather limited – not supporting multi-valued attributes is one of those limitations.

    So you’ll need to find another way to do this, e.g. by using SQl-CLR integration and accessing the Active Directory through .NET, or by e.g. exposing the data you need as a web service that you consume from SQL Server.

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