How to use a filter to avoid a sub OU in Active Directory?

Question

I have an application that pulls user information from an OU in Active Directory. The parameters it takes are a base for the search and a filter string.

I have an O

Answer 1

The following will do the trick:

(&(objectClass=user)(!(distinguishedName:=%Evil%)))

I ran into a similar problem while building an address book for scan to e-mail. I tried (&(objectClass=user)(!(distinguishedName:=*Evil*))) but it seems that some MFP's don't accept * as a wildcard, but they do accept %