Dynamic Data is Written to Disk

RESOLUTION

The containsDynamicOnly attribute cannot be set from the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). It must be set at the time the container is created. The following code demonstrates this procedure:

   Dim adsRoot
   Dim adsNewCont
   Dim strLdapPath
   Dim strAdmin
   Dim strAdminPwd

   strLdapPath = "LDAP://localhost:389/o=Microsoft"
   strAdmin = "cn=Administrator,ou=Members,o=Microsoft"
   strAdminPwd = "password"

   Set adsRoot = GetObject("LDAP:")
   Set adsRoot = adsRoot.OpenDSObject(strLdapPath, strAdmin, _
      strAdminPwd, 0)

   Set adsNewCont = adsRoot.Create("organizationalUnit",
   "ou=DynamicObj")
   adsNewCont.Put "containsDynamicOnly", CInt(1)
   adsNewCont.SetInfo
				

When the containsDynamicOnly attribute is set on a container, any objects created in the container are only kept in memory and, therefore, should not be used for anything but storing dynamic objects. Also, once this flag has been set, it cannot be removed.

This behavior is by design.