I'm using PrincipalSearcher and DirectorySearcher to filter users and specify which properties to grab. On testing it on 2 different networks. One network has 8K+ records and the other has 135K+. On the 135K+ network, it fails to save the records to a database. So I want to do a test with a handful of records, but it doesn't fail on the couple hundred of records I've tried. So I tried increasing it to a thousand. But when I do that, it gives me everything instead of the thousand I requested.
Here's how I'm doing this:
using (PrincipalSearcher searcher = new PrincipalSearcher(new UserPrincipal(context)))
{
DirectorySearcher directorySearcher = searcher.GetUnderlyingSearcher() as DirectorySearcher;
directorySearcher.Filter = "(&(objectSid=*)(sn=*)(givenName=*)(objectGuid=*))";
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("ObjectGUID");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("objectSid");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("GivenName");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("sn");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("mail");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("telephoneNumber");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("sAMAccountName");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("distinguishedName");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("title");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("department");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("company");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("manager");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("PhysicalDeliveryOfficeName");
directorySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("countryCode");
directorySearcher.SizeLimit = 255;
Notice the size limit here is 255. If I specify a value under 256, it will return the number of I records I specify. Quick example of it in action on the small network:
If I tell it to give me 255 records, it gives me 255 records. But if I tell it to give me 256 or higher, it wants to give me all of them.
Any ideas on what's going on here?
