Active directory user accounts not visible.

[jgiacobbe]

I have about 5 user accounts in my AD domain that are not normaly shown when using the AD users and computers mmc. If I right click on the OU and select find I can access the accounts. If I go to view and select advanced features the accounts appear in the OU. I am not sure what has caused this behaviour. The user accounts seem to function normaly. I have another program that is trying to query AD though for account information for the users and is unable to find them now. Any ideas on what is set funky on these accounts would help.

Jeremy Giacobbe
MCSE, CCNA

 

[Niksen]

we had some similar problems on a large AD, After a long investigation with MS we found that some custom attribute had invalid values (too long if i remeber correctly) and this for some weird reason resulted in the mentioned problem.

brgds Nicolai

If you need i can try get some details.

 

[jgiacobbe]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll look through the atributes with adsiutil and see if I can figure out what atributes those might be.

Jeremy Giacobbe
MCSE, CCNA