2.2.3.1.6 Category Search Request

This message requests the Group Policy server to return search results for a specific Group Policy: Software Installation category. This is an LDAP searchRequest message, as specified in [RFC2251], and MUST have the following values.

Parameter

Value

baseObject

MUST be a DN of the form CN=<CategoryId>,CN=AppCategories,CN=Default Domain Policy,CN=System,<Domain NC>. <CategoryId> is a GUID string as defined in [RFC4122] section 3.

Scope

MUST be set to 0 (base Object).

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).<9>

typesOnly

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

Filter

The following LDAP filter (as specified in [RFC2254]) MUST be used to search the AppCategories container (the representation given here is what is specified in [RFC2254]). This representation can be mapped to the LDAP protocol representation:

(objectClass=*)

Attributes

The following attributes MUST be retrieved: localizedDescription.