On further investigation, a domain controller that is not patched to SP1 or
SP2, thereby remaining at RTM patch level, would accept a “ “ space value
for a user’s Manager property when assigned programmatically. When the
domain controller is at least applied with SP1, a half-minute delay would
happen before return the “Directory service is busy” error.



On 1st april approval was granted to deploy the code fix to the production
environment, and the user account provisioning job succeeded without error.



Aaron


On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Aaron Seet <icelava@...> wrote:

> In an interesting turn of events, we have gotten access to one of the
> customer's test domain, and I wasted no time attempting the same tests onto
> this domain. Surprisingly the method to assign a " " whitespace to the
> manager property *actually works*. The user's manager property will no
> longer show another user. It seems the production domain and my home domain
> are exhibiting some sort of behaviour that this test domain, and possibly
> the past development domains, were not "inflicted" with. That may suggest
> why the previous developers did not find anything wrong with this code.
>
> Does anybody have any experience or further insight to explain this
> behaviour? Is a whitespace considered a valid way to unassign a user's
> manager?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>


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