Convert Byte to Binary

Hi guys and girls,

I've had a quick search and couldn't find an answer to my question.
Apologies if I missed it ....

I am retrieving a property (SID) from Active Directory which is
returned as an array of Bytes. I then need to write this back into AD
but in binary format.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...t/default.mspx
doesn't seem to have any solutions to converting the data to binary.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious here. Can someone perhaps
nudge me in the right direction?

TIA

Cheers

Adam

OK, so this isn't perhaps the issue I thought it was.

Apparently, despite : "$sid | gm" identifying the variable as
system.byte, it's kinda treated like a
system.directoryservices.PropertyValueCollection. Once I realised this
I resolved my issue by specifically identifying the variable in my put
statement.

example:
$prop.put("sid", $sid[0])

Everything then worked fine. Not sure if this is a limitation in my
understanding of PowerShell or just quirky behaviour

HTH someone though.

Cheers

Adam



On 5 Feb, 11:44, "perimere" <adam.b...@bhe-it.com> wrote:
> Hi guys and girls,
>
> I've had a quick search and couldn't find an answer to my question.
> Apologies if I missed it ....
>
> I am retrieving a property (SID) from Active Directory which is
> returned as an array of Bytes. I then need to write this back into AD
> but in binary format.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...npsh/convert/d...
> doesn't seem to have any solutions to converting the data to binary.
>
> I feel like I'm missing something obvious here. Can someone perhaps
> nudge me in the right direction?
>
> TIA
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam

.. Not sure if this is a limitation in my
> understanding of PowerShell or just quirky behaviour

None of the above

its behavoir of Active directory (ADSI) , returning everything as a collection

Greetings /\/\o\/\/
http://thePowerShellGuy.com

"perimere" wrote:

> OK, so this isn't perhaps the issue I thought it was.
>
> Apparently, despite : "$sid | gm" identifying the variable as
> system.byte, it's kinda treated like a
> system.directoryservices.PropertyValueCollection. Once I realised this
> I resolved my issue by specifically identifying the variable in my put
> statement.
>
> example:
> $prop.put("sid", $sid[0])
>
> Everything then worked fine. Not sure if this is a limitation in my
> understanding of PowerShell or just quirky behaviour
>
> HTH someone though.
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> On 5 Feb, 11:44, "perimere" <adam.b...@bhe-it.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys and girls,
> >
> > I've had a quick search and couldn't find an answer to my question.
> > Apologies if I missed it ....
> >
> > I am retrieving a property (SID) from Active Directory which is
> > returned as an array of Bytes. I then need to write this back into AD
> > but in binary format.
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...npsh/convert/d...
> > doesn't seem to have any solutions to converting the data to binary.
> >
> > I feel like I'm missing something obvious here. Can someone perhaps
> > nudge me in the right direction?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Adam
>
>
>