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I stumbled across this e-mail dialog I had with a Microsoft developer last
year. It epitomizes my experience with Microsoft when I've hit serious
trouble developing new Microsoft technology that they push. It is worth a
read, enjoy.

What ticked me off is that it was a pretty major bug in some important DB
technology and it is not recorded anywhere (in fact, the problem is created
when you follow the steps to fix another known/published bug). When
Microsoft (Andy Harjanto from Microsoft) confirms it is a bug, I have to
prod him to get details of the resolution and a date for a problem that they
know about. To be fair it involved a product in Beta (although to solve the
problem I was try to solve, Microsoft said to use this technology -- ADSI).
At least the correspondence is timely.

Curtis

-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Johnstone [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 2:05 PM
To: ADSI Feedback
Subject: ADSI 2.5 Beta 1

Arrrg!

I had problems running ADSI 2.0 with the version of ADO that ships with MDAC
2.1. I found a support article (Article ID: Q216709) which details this
problem. The resolution, it says, is to install ADSI 2.5. The only ADSI 2.5
I can find is Beta 1. I have installed it and MDAC 2.1 MANY, MANY times and
I finally have ADSI working but all my ADO queries fail.

I've narrowed it down to the Active Directory provider shipped with ADSI
2.5. I presume ADO is trying to use it when I make an LDAP namespace ADO
query.

I am SURE this is a bug -- I've tested it on three machines. The Active
Directory provider shipped with ADSI 2.5 Beta 1 does not work for LDAP
namespace querys with the ADO that ships with MDAC 2.1 (msado15.dll).
Specifically on the ADO query I get an unreferenced memory error and upon
debugging there is an unhandled exception in msado15.dll.

What's the deal??



-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Harjanto [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 2:09 PM
To: 'Curtis Johnstone'
Subject: RE: ADSI 2.5 Beta 1


Thanks. It has been fixed few months ago.



-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Johnstone [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 11:31 AM
To: Andy Harjanto
Subject: RE: ADSI 2.5 Beta 1


Great, so where is it fixed?  What's the resolution to my problem?