{"id":888,"date":"2012-03-01T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.chrisse.se\/?p=888"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:04:00","slug":"windows-server-8-beta-and-dumpreferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chrisse.se\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 8 Beta and dumpReferences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday when I was researching the new Windows Server 8 Beta bits I did a discovery of a new operational attribute [1] – dumpReferences (that I haven’t seen documented anywhere)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what does “dumpReferences” really do? It works similar to the “dumpDatabase” operational attribute, but instead it finds all none-linked (simple) references to a given objects [2] DNT (Distinguee Name Tag)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1] List of operational attributes in previous Windows Server releases: http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc223297(v=prot.10).aspx<\/a>.
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[2] If you want to know how DNTs work have a look at: http:\/\/blogs.chrisse.se\/2012\/02\/15\/how-the-active-directory-data-store-really-works-inside-ntds-dit-part-2<\/a>
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So how do you play with this?
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Table 1: dumpReferences
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LDIF Sample<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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dn:
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changetype: modify
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add: dumpReferences
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dumpReferences:<DN to dump references of><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Let’s try an example<\/strong>
We create two users with the following DNs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n