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Slash character in AD OU names causes problems

The below is from my network administrator after troubleshooting a problem adding a user to a group in TFS. It continually refused to add the user with a cryptic message about not finding the user on the domain (although it verified the name) and checking the trust relationships:

"Jane Doe is a member of advertising/marketing. The OU she is in is called Advertising/Marketing. However, '/' is a reserved character, so in order to not freak LDAP/AD out, the full object name precedes it with the escape character '\'. Thus:

Cade Roux

This is a know issue that we are actively working on a fix for. You can contact CSS and reference case number SRQ060724600311. CSS will be able to help you get the fix.

--Matt Hoover
Visual Studio Team System
Software Design Engineer

Matthew Hoover - MSFT

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