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Viewing hidden or deleted Exchange objects via ADSI/LDAP

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Summary

In order to view hidden and deleted objects in the Exchange directory, you must explicitly connect to the server as an Exchange admin account and specify an additional username component of "cn=admin".

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More information

You can bind explicitly as an admin by using a Bind DN (ADSI username) of the following form: 
   "cn=username,dc=domain,cn=admin"
The username and domain should be replaced with appropriate values, while the cn=admin portion is literal and should be used as is.

The following Microsoft Visual Basic code illustrates binding as an admin using ADSI LDAP: 
   Set adsNS = GetObject("LDAP:")
   Set adsObj = adsNS.OpenDsObject(strObjName,"cn=" & strUser & ",dc=" & _

      strDomain & ",cn=admin" , strPassword, 0 )
NOTE: When you connect with "cn=admin", hidden and deleted objects appear mixed with normal objects. You must test for (or filter on) the Is-Deleted or Hide-From-Address-Book properties to distinguish them from normal objects.

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References

For more information about using ADSI, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and Exchange, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wss/wss/_mgmt_management_tasks_using_adsi.asp
For additional information about using LDAP to view hidden and deleted objects, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
185475� LDAP search returns no entries for hidden or deleted objects

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Keywords: KB196850, kbinfo, kbapi

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Article Info
Article ID : 196850
Revision : 5
Created on : 3/1/2005
Published on : 3/1/2005
Exists online : False
Views : 482