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Escaping Special Characters in Object Identifiers

There are two special characters in the Provisioning Server object ID that need to be escaped when using SPML. If there is a comma character in the object name then you will have to use a backward slash to escape the comma. If there is a backward slash in the name then you have to escape it by another backward slash.

For example the identifier "User=\\new\,user,Domain=EXAMPLE_DOMAIN,Server=Server" identifies the user by the name "\new,user" inside the domain EXAMPLE_DOMAIN.