https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/tags/otherwellknownobjects/Recent content in OtherWellKnownObjects on Remko's BlogHugoen-usFri, 24 Jun 2011 11:19:25 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2011/06/24/reading-the-otherwellknownobjects-attribute-with-powershell/Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:19:25 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2011/06/24/reading-the-otherwellknownobjects-attribute-with-powershell/<p>I wanted to read the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679095(v=vs.85).aspx" target="_blank">otherWellKnownObjects</a> attribute from an Active Directory object.</p> <p>In my case this was the Microsoft Exchange container in the Configuration partition:</p> <p><a href="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image14.webp" class="glightbox" data-type="image" data-gallery="post-1899"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image_thumb14.webp" width="243" height="317" /></a></p> <p>The otherWellKnownObjects attribute is of type ADSTYPE_DN_WITH_BINARY which unfortunately cannot be viewed or edited with ADSI Edit:</p> <p><a href="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image15.webp" class="glightbox" data-type="image" data-gallery="post-1899"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="ADSI Edit" border="0" alt="There is no editor registered to handle this attribute type" src="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image_thumb15.webp" width="381" height="149" /></a>&#160;</p> <p>&#160;</p>