They aren't equivalent.  Try using the .Value property instead:

user.Properties("description").Value = xxxx

Description is a funny property in AD in that the schema says that it allows multiple values, but the DS itself will only allow it to contain a single value for backward compatibility with previous DS APIs. That might be part of the problem here.

In any event, it is generally always good practice to use the .Value property to set a single value. There is more info on this in ch 6 of our book (www.directoryprogramming.net).

Joe K.

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I have a user with no description attribute.

Anyone know why this works?

User.Invoke("put", New Object() {"description", txtBxNewDescription.Text})
User.commitChanges

but this doesn't

User.Properties("Description").Add(txtBxNewDescription.Text)
User.commitChanges

I get the following error message.

ComError {"A constraint violation occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007202F)"} System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException

Thanks

Yves St-Cyr
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