2.2.2.1 Software Installation Container Search Request

This message requests the Group Policy server to search for the software package container for a GPO. This is an LDAP searchRequest message, as specified in [RFC2251], and MUST have the following values.

 Parameter

 Value

baseObject

A class store distinguished name (DN) for the object of Active Directory class "classStore" in Active Directory. This object referenced by this class store DN is contained in an object of class groupPolicyContainer (as specified in [MS-ADSC] section 2.58). This MUST be a DN of the form CN=Class Store,<scoped gpo dn>, where <scoped gpo dn> is a scoped Group Policy Object (GPO) distinguished name (DN).

Scope

MUST be the value 0 for the baseObject scope, as specified in [RFC2251].

derefAliases

MUST be set to 0 (neverDerefAliases) to dereference in searching.

sizeLimit

MUST be set to 0 (no limit set).

timeLimit

MAY be set to 0 (infinite).<2>

typesOnly

MUST be set to FALSE, according to the LDAP definition of FALSE.

Filter

The following LDAP filter (as specified in [RFC2254]) MUST be used:

objectClass=*

attributes

MUST specify the attribute appSchemaVersion.<3>