Re: Bad filter in Active Directory: (!company=mycompany)

On Oct 23, 2008, at 9:49 AM, A. Farber wrote:
>
> If I remove "!" it works ok. If I try that filter with dsquery:
>
> dsquery * domainroot -filter "(&(objectCategory=Person)
> (objectClass=User)(!company=mycompany))
>
> - then it works too. Has anybody seen the same problem?

dsquery is being lenient here. For the filter to be cirrect the test  
you are trying to ! must also be inside ()'s

   "(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(!(company=mycompany)))"

Graham.