Describing the ADSI Path

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) requires that you escape some characters with a backslash (\) character when you use them in an LDAP Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) path.

,=+<>#;\"

The escape character is only required for the ADSIPath property value.

The following example shows how to define the ADSIPath property. Note that the # character in the CN property value of abc# is escaped.

// #include <windows.h> for this code to compile

BSTR strObjPath = 
    SysAllocString(L"ds_user.ADSIPath=\"LDAP://CN=abc\#,"
                   L"CN=Users,DC=dsprovider,DC=nttest,"
                   L"DC=microsoft,DC=com\"");

// Use strObjectPath here.

SysFreeString(strObjPath); // Free memory resources.